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After the chaos of the 1905 Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II knew his regime had been pushed to the brink of collapse. He turned to one man to be his enforcer and saviour: Pyotr Stolypin, a tough, determined, and intelligent minister. Stolypin’s plan to save the Tsar was a brutal and ambitious two-pronged strategy, famously known as the ‘carrot and the stick’. But did it work? Was Stolypin the last great hope of the Tsarist system, or was his project a tragic failure that was too little, too late? For your AQA exam, the key is to evaluate. You cannot simply list…