!historychads !anticommunists what's our assessment? Incompetent moron? Bloody tyrant? A product of his time? I already know our resident commies will say he got what he deserved. His wife was extremely r-slurred, ignored all of based granny Victoria's advices and was probably boned by a creepy peasant.
!neolibs was Sergei Witte /our/ guy? Was Stolypin taken from us too soon?
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I like Kotkin's take on him, that the tsarist's regime failure to tap into mass politics after 1905 fatally weakened it. In effect the tsar and his advisors could have tapped into the popularity of the russian far right to form a majority in the Duma, but paradoxically they hated the duma and mass politics and could never lower themselves to using it.
When a political regime willingly narrows its base of power it risks annihilation
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