The Four Dumas Flashcards
Explain the First Duma
Who dominated it?
What happened when the tsar refused to accept the demands of the address to the throne?
Dominated by Bolsheviks and SRs
The radically left majority produces and ‘address to the throne’ which called for several changes
After the tsar responded the demands were ‘totally inadmissible’ 200 hundred delegates of the Duma travelled to the Finish Vyborg and urged citizens to refuse to pay rent or do military service
However The tsar ordered ordered the leaders to be arrested and anyone who signed the appeal to be disenfranchised
What did the address to the throne demand?
Universal male suffrage
Transfer ministerial responsibility to the Duma
Abolition of death penalty
When was the first Duma?
May - July 1906
Explain the second Duma
Even more liberally radical than its predecessor because the Bolsheviks, Mensheviks and SRs participated
However, Stolypin (minister of internal affairs) was just as conservative
- Stolypin had made unsuccessful attempts to implement his agrarian reforms but was prevented by the Duma
He then made rumours that delegates of the Duma were plotting to assassinate the tsar - he then had them arrested and exiled
- Stolypin dissolved the Duma & introduced an emergency law which drastically reduced the power of peasants, workers and minorities
When was the second Duma?
February - June 1907
When was the third Duma?
November 1907 - June 1912
The third Duma?
Very much a product of the demise of the second Duma - far more submissive
However there were still areas of confrontation
- disputes over naval staff & Stolypin’s proposals to extend primary education
By 1911 the Duma had to be suspended twice while government forced through legislation under emergency law
What evidence is their to suggest the third Duma has been defeated?
The submissive third Duma agreed to 2200 of the governments 2500 proposals
This was a sign Duma wasn’t working
