Set up by the #Stolypin reform agricultural property system had not become legible to central tax officials as was demonstrated by the immensely damaging procurement policies pursued by the czarist government during World War I.

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Stolypin's reforms

Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin #ПётрАрка́дьевичСтолы́пин was born #OnThisDay in 1862 & was prime minister to Nicholas II; #Stolypin was a right-wing monarchist who introduced significant progressive reforms to save the regime before his assassination in 1911...

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