8. The First Dumas

Question 1

When did the first duma begin

Answer 1

April 1906

Question 2

What happened in April 1906?

Answer 2

First Duma opened

Question 3

When did the first Duma close?

Answer 3

July 1906

Question 4

What happened in July 1906?

Answer 4

Duma closed

Question 5

How many months did the First Duma last?

Answer 5

2 months

Question 6

What did the first Duma participate in?

Answer 6

Rigorous debates over matters like the Empire like the Polish question and land distribution

Question 7

How did the government respond to the rigorous debate of the first Duma?

Answer 7

Said that land distribution was not an option

Question 8

How did the government anger the first Duma?

Answer 8

Government stated that compulsory redistribution was not an option

Question 9

What solution did the first Duma want?

Answer 9

More radical solutions

Question 10

Who wanted more radical solutions

Answer 10

The first Duma

Question 11

Who gained coverage of the first Dumas anger?

Answer 11

The press

Question 12

In response to the growing coverage of the Dumas anger what did Nicholas do?

Answer 12

Nicholas claimed it was illegal and disbanded it

Question 13

What was an achievement of the first Duma?

Answer 13

First elected government

Large number of liberal and reformists

Question 14

Who did the government obtain loans from?

Answer 14

France

Question 15

What was the impact of receiving loans from France?

Answer 15

Weakened Dumas chance to use financial powers over the Tsar

Question 16

What did Nicholas pass in April 1906?

Answer 16

The fundamental law

Question 17

When was the fundamental law passed?

Answer 17

April 1906

Question 18

What did the April 1906 Fundamental law state?

Answer 18

“The all-Russia Emperor possesses the supreme autocratic power” therefore giving him the right to supersede the Duma and dissolving it if he pleased

Question 19

What did the upper chamber have?

Answer 19

Veto powers

Question 20

Who had veto powers?

Answer 20

The upper chambers

Question 21

What was the impact of the upper chambers having a veto power?

Answer 21

Duma had no real power

Question 22

Between the sorting of the first and second Duma, how were disobedient Ministers handled?

Answer 22

Arrested trial and imprisonment

Question 23

What was arrested and imprisoned in between the first and second Duma and why?

Answer 23

Key Kadet and Labourist party moments who has signed the Vyborg manifesto

Question 24

What was the vyborg manifesto

Answer 24

Set of demands from militant Duma MPs asking the people of Finland not to pay taxes or serve in the armed forces till the Dumas were restored

Question 25

What were a Set of demands from militant Duma MPs asking the people of Finland not to pay taxes or serve in the armed forces till the Dumas were restored

Answer 25

Vyborg manifesto

Question 26

How many Kadets and Trudoviks formed a rival assembly?

Answer 26

200

Question 27

What parties made up the 200 deputies who formed a rival assembly which was repressed by the Tsar

Answer 27

Kadets and Trudoviks (SRs)

Question 28

What was this Duma called?

Answer 28

Duma of National hope

Question 29

What was called the Duma of national hope

Answer 29

The first Duma

Question 30

Who refused to join the Dumas?

Answer 30

SRs, Bolsheviks and extreme right wing groups

Question 31

How many members were peasants?

Answer 31

191

Question 32

Of the all of the members, what group did 191 of the represent?

Answer 32

Peasantry

Question 33

Who won the most seats?

Answer 33

Kadets after a skilful campaign

Question 34

What fraction of the Duma were peasants?

Answer 34

A third

Question 35

What did a third of the representatives in the Duma belong to?

Answer 35

Peasantry

Question 36

When did the Duma first meet?

Answer 36

May 1st 1906

Question 37

What happened on May 1st 1906?

Answer 37

Duma Met for the first time at St Petersburg

Question 38

Why did Sergei Witte resign?

Answer 38

Revolutionaries at court

Question 39

Who was Sergi Witte repleaced by?

Answer 39

Ivan Goremykin

Question 40

How much was the loan that France gave to Russia?

Answer 40

2250 million gold Francs

Question 41

What did the first Duma want to abolish

Answer 41

Political amnesty ( abolition of state council)

Question 42

In the Vyborg manifesto, how May Kadets participated

Answer 42

120 Kadets including Prince Lviv

Question 43

How many days did the first Duma last?

Answer 43

72 days

Question 44

What political parties refused to take part in the first elections?

Answer 44

SRs | SDs

Question 45

How did the SRs and SDs react to the first Duma?

Answer 45

Refused to take part in the first election