? starter activity

1
Civil freedoms will be granted to the population
? starter activity
None will be deprived of voting powers in the Duma
No law can be passed without the approval of the
Duma
The government will be fully accountable to the
Duma
Tsar Nicholas II family. Read the extract your
teacher gives you. How are the terms of the
October Manifesto (Oct 1905) different from The
Fundamental Laws (April 1906)?
2
Were the Dumas ever more than talking shops?
? Aims

• To assess the powers selection processes for
  the State Duma
• To analyse the achievements of each of the 4 Dumas

3
State opening of 1st Duma, 1906. Do these images
give any clues over the powers of the Duma or its
relationship with the Tsar?
4
? Your task

• Read Oxley p.66-7 and find evidence that the Tsar
  expected the Dumas to be easy to control.

5
Control over Dumas

• Complex voting system
• Class-based voting system which favoured ruling
  classes, e.g. 1 gentry vote worth 3.5
  townspeoples votes, 15 peasant votes 45
  workers votes
• State Council Upper Chamber, ½ appointments by
  Tsar
• Proletariat kept in check by traditional loyalty
  of peasants Church

6
? Your task

• Read Lynch p. 50-54 and note the key achievements
  and failures of each duma. Your teacher will give
  you a table to complete.

Interior of the Duma, which met in the Tauride
Palace, St Petersburg