The First Duma Flashcards
1
Q
What was it called and when was it created?
A
-the Duma of National hope
-May-July 1906
2
Q
What was the demographic?
A
-overwhelmingly radical-liberal in composition
-strongly critical of tsar + his minister which brought wittes resignation
-was boycotted by Bolsheviks + SRs
3
Q
What did it request?
A
-political amnesty
-transfer ministerial responsibility to the Duma
-universal + direct male suffrage + abandonment of emergency laws
-tsar deemed requests ‘totally inadmissible’
4
Q
Why + how was the Duma resolved?
A
-Duma passed vote of ‘no confidence’ + demanded resignation of tsars ministers
-10 weeks later Duma resolved + PM relocated by Stolypin
-Stolypin was even more hardline
