NoMommsen
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You're truly ... vitalizing.First, strikes are a normal part of inzustrial life. They do not mean revolutionary situation.
Sure, strikes are a normal part of how employee/employer relations are handeled. ... Today, after World War 1 ended with all its changes of workers right especially in Germany (how far "workers rights" were ralized in the SU during and after the civil war ... ... ...).
Prior to World War 1 strikes were often if not to say common, but always on the brink of criminality, sometimes even rendered criminal and let to hard fights between employees, employers and police.
They were far from "normal" as an allowed, somehow regulated mean to settle work-life disputes.
Well, Stolypins reforms were soo successfull. that he was actually assasinated in 1911 ......
There was no revolutionary movement left a d certainly no violence in the countryside where the Stolypin reforms had releaved the pressures
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From 1919 - 1913 : 13.000 farmers upheaveals all over the country
From 1907 - 1909 : more than 26.000 political trials with 5.086 death sentences
April 1912 : strikes on the Lena-goldfields lasted 8 months => 170 workers killed, 196 "vanished", 18.000 workers and their families "moved"
1910 : strikes all over the country : 222
1912 : strikes all over the country 466
1913 : strikes all over the country 1.971 (from january to september)
(main and first source : https://marx200.org/blog/die-sturmflut-den-jahren-1911-bis-1913-russland )
Yep, really a "pacified", well prospering and developing country.
True, neither dissolution is a given.There is no reason to believe that the Empire would dissolve. Certainly far less than the remote possibility that austris-Hungary would
Though IMO to "hold" them in both cases there would be rather intellignet. clever and sometimes daring decisions to be made.
Properties I somehow have problems to recognize by the "leading" politicians of both empires.