9 - The October Manifesto And Duma Government

Question 1

How did Russia seem economically by October 1905?

Answer 1

Near collapse

Question 2

Where were there strikes and demonstrations? Where were peasant uprisings?

Answer 2

Cities

Countryside

Question 3

Why did Alexander III make his decree? What 2 things did he promise?

Answer 3

Pressure from advisers

Civil liberties and State Duma

Question 4

What are examples of civil liberties?

Answer 4

Free speech, press, assembly

Question 5

Who was the State Duma elected by? What did the Duma pass?

Answer 5

Universal suffrage

Laws

Question 6

Who accepted the Manifesto? Who are 3 group examples of these?

Answer 6

Liberals

Kadets, Progressives and Octobrists

Question 7

Which 2 socialist groups rejected the Manifesto? What do they stand for?

Answer 7

SR/SD

Revolutionaries and Democrats

Question 8

What were many workers unconvinced by in the Manifesto? Who did they continue to support?

Answer 8

Tsar’s promises

Socialist groups

Question 9

What uprising continued? What was hoped for?

Answer 9

Peasant uprising

Land redistribution

Question 10

Who remained loyal to the Tsar?

Answer 10

Army

Question 11

What 2 places did the army storm in November/December 1905?

Answer 11

Moscow and St Petersburg HQ

Question 12

What happened to Soviet leaders? What was the worst punishment?

Answer 12

Arrested or exiled to Siberia

Execution

Question 13

Where was order restored by the army? What ended for peasants?

Answer 13

Countryside

Redemption payments

Question 14

When were the Fundamental Laws introduced? What were they?

Answer 14

April 1906

A constitution

Question 15

Which 2 groups refused to participate in the Fundamental Laws?

Answer 15

SRs and Bolsheviks

Question 16

What did the Tsar exercise in the Fundamental Laws?

Answer 16

Supreme autocratic power

Question 17

What did the Tsar initiate in the Fundamental Laws?

Answer 17

Legislation and approval

Question 18

Who could the Tsar appoint and dismiss as part of the Fundamental Laws? What could he summon and dissolve?

Answer 18

Ministers

Duma

Question 19

What could the Tsar do in an emergency?

Answer 19

Rule by decree

Question 20

What did the Tsar never have any intention of becoming?

Answer 20

A “constitutional monarch”

Question 21

When was the First Duma active? Who was it dominated by?

Answer 21

May-June 1906

Radicals and Kadets

Question 22

What did the First Duma demand? Why did the Duma dissolve?

Answer 22

Radical change

Vote of no confidence

Question 23

When was the Second Duma active? Who engineered elections to gain Octobrists?

Answer 23

February-June 1907

Peter Stolypin

Question 24

Who increased the number of radical deputies due to participation?

Answer 24

Bolsheviks and SRs

Question 25

What did the Second Duma oppose?

Answer 25

Most Tsarist proposals

Question 26

When was the Third Duma active? What did Stolypin introduce?

Answer 26

November 1907-June 1912

Emergency law for representation

Question 27

Who dominated the Third Duma?

Answer 27

Octobrists and Conservatives

Question 28

When was the Fourth Duma active? Who couldn’t co-operate?

Answer 28

November 1912-17

Right and left deputies

Question 29

What did the Fourth Duma vote for in 1914? Why was it suspended in 1915?

Answer 29

War credits

Demanding more power

Question 30

What does Historian Orlando Figes say about Nicholas II and his autocratic values?

Answer 30

“Nicholas was opposed to limitation upon his autocratic prerogatives”

Question 31

What does Historian Martin Sixsmith say about Nicholas II offering concessions?

Answer 31

“He offered concessions in the hope of defusing tension”