Describe the reforms Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin brought to Russia.Did they work?

Piotr Arkadevich Stolypin was appointed as the Russian
Minister of the Interior by Czar Nicholas II in May of 1906 and then as the Russian
Premier in July.  This was a period in Russian history of political and social unrest. 
Stolypin tried to establish stability and repress disorder by fighting the revolutionary
movement in Russia.  He did this by trying to establish a class of peasant landowners
that would be conservative and loyal to the czar.  After Czar Alexander II freed all
serfs in 1861, control of land was given to the “mir”, or the village commune, which was
responsible for redistributing the land.  One of Stolypin’s reforms was to give these
peasant communes the right to dissolve themselves and in essence, transform peasants
into landowners.  It also allowed peasants to seek industrial employment in cities.
These reforms were too late.  The number of small holdings had increased by the start of
the Russian Revolution in 1917, but it was not enough to create the conservative peasant
class that Stolypin sought. Stolypin was assassinated by a revolutionary terrorist in
1911.