Analyse the role of the Duma

Analyse the role of the Duma

1. 1: Fundamental Laws: April 1906

   • Tsar last word on law
     • Duma not legislative
     • "When are they going to shut up" N2

2. 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. 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. 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. 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 more