Quotes: Fundamental laws, dumas

Question 1

What did Nicholas believe the purpose of the Duma was?

Answer 1

“I created the Duma, not to be directed by it, but to be advised” - Tsar Nicholas II

Question 2

What did Nicholas say about Witte’s idea to create the Duma?

Answer 2

“Curse the Duma, it’s all Witte’s fault” - Tsar Nicholas II

Question 3

What did Nicholas reject about the Dumas?

Answer 3

Nicholas rejected the ‘very principles of a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary government’

Question 4

What did Nicholas say about Stolypin’s voting reforms?

Answer 4

Voting suspended in areas where the population ‘had not yet reached sufficient levels of civic development’ - Tsar Nicholas II

Question 5

What did Stolypin say about the Dumas?

Answer 5

‘Suppression first, and then, only then, reform’ Pytor Stolypin

Question 6

What did Trotsky say about the Fundamental Laws?

Answer 6

‘We have been given a constitution, but absoluteism remains’ - Leon Trotsky

‘A constituton is given, but the autocracy remains. Everything is given, and nothing is given’

Question 7

Why didn’t Nicholas agree to a representative government?

Answer 7

‘I shall never … agree to a representative form of government because I consider it harmful to the people whom God has entrusted to my care’

Question 8

What did Nicholas say about how he would preserve the autocracy?

Answer 8

‘I will preserve the principle of Autocracy as firmly and unflinchingly as my late father’ - Nicholas