The Dumas 1906-1914

Question 1

What was the Fundamental Laws 1906?

Answer 1

Legal form of the promises made in the October Manifesto

Question 2

What was Article 4 of the FL?

Answer 2

Tsars continuing primacy

Question 3

What was article 87 of the FL?

Answer 3

Tsar to proclaim new laws without Duma permission when it wasn’t in session

Question 4

What was the imperial state council?

Answer 4

Half appointed by the Tsar, half by nobility, church and Zemstva

Question 5

What was the 1st Duma known as?

Answer 5

Duma of National Hopes

Question 6

What party held the majority in the 1st Duma?

Answer 6

the kadets

Question 7

Why was the 1st Duma dissolved?

Answer 7

The government lost patience after it began debating land reform measures

Question 8

How many members of the 1st Duma fled to Finland before it was dissolved and why?

Answer 8

200 members fled to avoid arrest

Question 9

What did the members of the 1st Duma that fled to Finland release?

Answer 9

The Vyborg Manifesto

Question 10

What was the Vyborg Manifesto?

Answer 10

Called for people to refuse paying tax until the Duma was restored

Question 11

What happened to the signatories of the Vyborg Manifesto?

Answer 11

Arrested and banned from involving themselves in politics

Question 12

What was the 2nd Duma known as?

Answer 12

Duma of public anger

Question 13

When was the 2nd Duma created?

Answer 13

Feb 1907

Question 14

What parties boycotted the voting of the 1st Duma?

Answer 14

SRs

Question 15

What party held majority in the 2nd Duma?

Answer 15

Trudoviks

Question 16

Why was the 2nd Duma dissolved and when?

Answer 16

Dissolved mid 1907 after it refused to support Stolypins land reforms

Question 17

How did Stolypin dissolve the 2nd Duma?

Answer 17

claimed that Bolshevik members were involved in treasonable activity

Question 18

What did Stolypin do after the dissolution of the 2nd Duma?

Answer 18

Scrapped the 1905 electoral laws

Question 19

What did Stolypin replace the electoral laws with?

Answer 19

System where the nobility elected more than half of the Duma, peasantry elected one fifth

Question 20

What was the 3rd Duma known as?

Answer 20

Duma of the Lords and the Lackeys

Question 21

When was the 3rd Duma created?

Answer 21

Nov 1907

Question 22

What did the 3rd Duma want?

Answer 22

National insurance, democratic processes to be removed

Question 23

Was the 3rd Duma successful?

Answer 23

Achieved successful social reforms, only Duma to survive its full sentence

Question 24

When was the 4th Duma created?

Answer 24

Nov 1912

Question 25

What did the 4th Duma do?

Answer 25

Continue the work of the 3rd Duma

Question 26

Why did the 4th Duma dissolve itself?

Answer 26

To help with the war effort in Aug 1914

Question 27

Was the Tsar in a strong position in 1914?

Answer 27

Autocracy had been established, defence, foreign affairs and public order policy all belonged to the Tsar, FL used to bypass Duma