Population Trends and Migration The proportion of Europeans in the world's total population was apparently greater around 1900-estimated at about 20 percent -than ever before or since. The number of Europeans had risen from approximately 266 million in 1850 to 401 million in 1900 and 447 million in 1910. The mid-century emancipation of peasants lessened the authority of landlords and made legal movement and migration easier. Railways, steamships, and better roads increased mobility. Cheap land and better wages accompanied economic development in …showed first 75 words of 4328 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4328 total…of the ground he had conceded. The Constitutional Democrats wanted a more genuinely parliamentary mode of government, but they compromised out of fear of new revolutionary disturbances. In 1911 Stolypin was assassinated by a Social Revolutionary, who may have been a police agent in the pay of conservatives. Meanwhile, at court the monk Grigory Efimovich Rasputin (1871?-1916) came into ascendancy because of his alleged power to heal the tsar's hemophilic son, the heir to the throne.