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deputies. Of these, 13 were Estonians who formed a bloc with the Russian Constitutional Democrats' Party (cadets). Although the Duma was unable to solve the acute Baltic problems, it was nevertheless a means of making the Russian public and the world aware of them. The reaction brought along another wave of Russification which reached the Baltic countries in 1907. Encouraged by the new Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin, the government officials devised grand-scale plans to strengthen the central government and force the Russification of Estonians and Latvians -- even contemplating the colonisation of the whole region with Russian peasants. But the St Petersburg government lacked both the power and the time to realise these plans. By the early 20th century, Estonia had become one of the economically and culturally most advanced areas of the whole empire with grand-scale industrial and agricultural production
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