The 4 Dumas

Question 1

What parties were present in Duma 1?

Answer 1

A mix of left and right-wing

Question 2

What parties were present in Duma 2?

Answer 2

A mixture of both wings - slightly more right-wing though

Question 3

What parties were present in Duma 3? Why?

Answer 3

Mainly right-wing parties as article 87 Riggs the voting

Question 4

What parties were present in Duma 4?

Answer 4

Mainly right-wing

Question 5

What occurs in Duma 1 as a result of the parties present?

Answer 5

A lot of disagreements and arguments

Question 6

What historically is important about the first Duma?

Answer 6

Marks the first democratic institution with the people were fairly represented

Question 7

What weakened the power of the first Duma?

Answer 7

The fundamental laws

Question 8

What limited the control of finance in the first Duma?

Answer 8

Huge foreign loans

Question 9

What did the first and second Duma do?

Answer 9

Little

Question 10

What limited discussions and progression in Duma 2?

Answer 10

Significant amounts of arguments

Question 11

In terms of Stolypin’s reforms and the Tsar’s army, what did the second duma do?

Answer 11

Opposed Stolypin’s reforms and attacked the organisation of Tsar’s army

Question 12

What does the third duma do? (3)

Answer 12

• 4 years of compulsory education
• Schools set up for the poor
• National insurance scheme for ill workers introduced

Question 13

When the are in power how does the third Duma treat Stolypin’s reforms?

Answer 13

They are all pushed through

Question 14

What leads to their being underrepresentation of the left-wing in the Third Duma?

Answer 14

Article 87

Question 15

Why was the Third Duma kept?

Answer 15

For the democratic image of Russia as the Tsar holds control

Question 16

During the fourth Duma what happens twoard the Tsar?

Answer 16

Opposition and criticism grows

Question 17

During the fourth Duma what do they do to the Tsar?

Answer 17

Voiced criticisms towards the Tsar and encouraged opposition to rule

Question 18

What two events effected the fourth Duma? How did this effect the fourth Duma?

Answer 18

WW1 - interrupted their time in office

Lena Goldfields Massacre - growing tensions

Question 19

What was Article 87?

Answer 19

Changing of the voting system votes from upper-class were worth much more than the votes from the peasants and workers

Question 20

How many votes were needed from workers to get someone elected?

Answer 20

100,000 votes

Question 21

How many votes were needed from the upper classes to get someone elected?

Answer 21

Only 200 vote

Question 22

Who did Article 87 favour?

Answer 22

It favoured right wing groups

Question 23

Who were the right wing groups in favour of?

Answer 23

The Tsar

Question 24

What did the third duma do?

Answer 24

Some social reform