It can be said that important economic as well as social changes occurred between the time periods of 1906 to 1914.  Industrial growth was lifting Russia out of the backwardness and the "Stolypin"  agrarian reforms were creating a basis for a new class of independent farmers. Overall there were signs and measures that social inequality  was lessening as workers and peasants as well obtained higher incomes , greater mobility and even more rights.

Stolypin agreed with the socialists that a communal peasantry  was potentially revolutionary.  His government’s aim then became to abolish the "mir" ( peasant commune)  , free the peasant from it and foster individual farming. 

Stolypin thus explained to the Duma in 1908 " The government has put its wager not on the drunken and the weak – but rather on the sober and strong – that is on the sturdy individual proprietor".

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