Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Analyse the role of the Duma
- 1: Fundamental Laws: April 1906
- Tsar last word on law
- Duma not legislative
- "When are they going to shut up" N2
- 2: FIRST DUMA: APRIL-JUNE 1906
- 1906 loan-no financial hold on Tsar
- Vyborg Appeal after Duma dissolution
- Refuse tax
- Dodge conscription
- Failed: Gov puts Stolypin chief minister
- Imposed martial law+military courts
- 1906-11, 2500 exe
- Character
- A radical, liberal, reformist assembly
- "Mood of bitterness"
- Numbers
- 1/3 peasant deputies
- 182 Kadets, 136 Labourists, 60 National Parties
- Kadets wanted:
- Full democrat eleted ass
- Uni suffrage
- End censorship
- Free educ
- 3: SECOND DUMA FEBRUARY-JUNE 1907
- Numbers
- Labourists 104, National Parties 93, Kadets 91
- Kadets lose half seats-liberal cause discreited, extreme leftist encouraged -SD'S AND SR'S ATTEND
- 70% of St P wORKERS voted
- Character
- 80 SD/SR deputies, strong Anti-gov
- "The duma of the people's wrath"
- SD's/SR's 80 deputies
- Accused of subversion by N2,
dissolved to prevent SD's killng
him
- Disagreement between Tsar and Duma and
WITHIN DUMA
- Right wing presence
- Stolypin concessions-his land reform opposed-conservative
- Attacks imperial army organis/deployment
- 4: THIRD DUMA NOV 1907-JUNE 1912
- Character
- Docile-gov doctoring of electoral system
- Stolypin restricts to property owning class-peasant/workers lost vote
- Dom of Right Wing-Tsar crit lower
- Co-operative- Stolypin continue land reform
- BUT: Questioned ministers, discuss state finance
- Comm system make props for modernis armed service
- Numbers
- Octobrists 154, Rightist 147, Kadets 54
- 1571 bills approved
- Including: social reform
- Progressive Education Law 1908: Schools poor. National insurance
- JP's replace land captains
- Stolypin assassination 1911- tension
- 5: FOURTH DUMA NOV 1912-14
- Character
- Less open crit, still voiced some crit
- Bolsh dismiss- "rubber stamp on gov policy"
- Crit of Lena Goldfields handling
- Supported Education Act 1908
- Reform Orthodox church
- Numbers
- Rightist 154, Octobrists 95, Kadets 53
- Moscow Okhrana report 1912
- Russian tensions on awkward/searching questions of duma about gov policy
- "necessity of calling a consituent assembly"
- "overthrowing the present system by...the proletariat"
- "Only the blindness of the
Tsarist gov" prevent duma doing
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