8. The Second Duma

Question 1

What was the nickname of this Duma?

Answer 1

Duma of national anger

Question 2

What Duma was nicknamed the Duma of national anger?

Answer 2

The second Duma

Question 3

When did the second Duma open?

Answer 3

February 1907

Question 4

What happened in February 1907?

Answer 4

Second Duma opened

Question 5

What happened in June 1907?

Answer 5

Second Duma closed

Question 6

When did the second Duma close?

Answer 6

June 1907

Question 7

Who was the new prime minister?

Answer 7

Stolypin

Question 8

What did stolypin form to deal with the misbehaving officials?

Answer 8

Court Martials

Question 9

Who was disenfranchised?

Answer 9

Kadets due to Vyborg mainfesto

Question 10

What happened to the Kadets in the second Duma?

Answer 10

Disenfranchised (unable to vote) because of Vyborg manifesto

Question 11

What group was reduced in the Duma

Answer 11

Moderate liberals

Question 12

What groups now participated in the Dumas.

Answer 12

Social revolutionaries, Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

Question 13

How many representatives from the first Duma returned?

Answer 13

30

Question 14

Why was the second Duma called the Duma of national anger?

Answer 14

Because of opposition to the first one

Question 15

What did stolypin struggle to find support for?

Answer 15

Agrarian reform

Question 16

What was article 87?

Answer 16

Part of fundamental law which allowed decrees to be sent to Tsar without consulting Duma

Question 17

What was Part of fundamental law which allowed decrees to be sent to Tsar without consulting Duma

Answer 17

Article 87

Question 18

What did Stolypin use the article 87 for?

Answer 18

Agrarian reforms

Question 19

How did Stolypin get his Agrarian reforms passed?

Answer 19

Used article 87

Question 20

Why did the Tsar dissolve the Duma?

Answer 20

SR member framed for attempting to harm he Tsar or arrange a mutiny which meant that he proclaimed it was subversive

Question 21

What did the illegals emergency law do?

Answer 21

Reduced weight of peasants vote and wealthiest 1% had 60% of control

Question 22

Due to the illegal emergency law, what did the wealthiest 1% have control over?

Answer 22

60% control of vote

Question 23

What were the benefits of the Duma?

Answer 23

Stolypin was willing to work on necessary reform

Question 24

Who had disagreements

Answer 24

Left and right wing

Question 25

What angered the Duma

Answer 25

Tsar critiquing the admin of military

Question 26

Impact of the floor criticising the admin of military?

Answer 26

Angered the Duma

Question 27

Who doubled their representation in the second Duma?

Answer 27

Octoborists

Question 28

What happened to octoborists representation in the Duma?

Answer 28

Doubled

Question 29

Who decided to participate in the Duma?

Answer 29

Social revolutionaries, Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

Question 30

Why was the second Duma called the “Duma of national hope”?

Answer 30

More oppositional than its predecessors

Question 31

What was the impact of having both left and right in the Duma

Answer 31

Neither side wanted to experiment and collisions crippled it’s political force

Question 32

Who did stolypin spread rumours about?

Answer 32

Social democracts attempt to assassinate the Tsar

Question 33

What social group was more represented

Answer 33

The gentry

Question 34

After stolypins fake accusation what did the Duma do

Answer 34

Refused to waive the the social democracts immunity from arrest (A right of all Duma delegates)