P.A. Stolypin - Russian statesman (the importance of the spirit of nationality in politics)

The author disputes the assessments of P.A. Stolypin by a number of authors, based on the erroneous methodology of the “class approach”. He proposes a view, which is traditional for Russian thought, and considers the mission of the reformer as complex, aimed at a nationwide “Russian revival”, in which the agrarian reform was only one of the means of the necessary “National revival”. P.A. Stolypin knew quite like Pushkin that the Empire needed correction the pro-Western “Petersburg deviation” from the spirit of nationality by the legitimate supreme power, but not its revolutionary destruction.