10.47- The Duma of Lords and Lackeys

Stolypin's reforms died. Then Stolypin died. 

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After attaining power, Augustus set about reforming the Empire. 

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Over the course of his reign Diocletian instituted a number of reforms to the military structure that helped transform the legions into a new kind of army.