First Meeting of the Duma
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Royalty, Rulers, Nobility
- Subcategories: Czars, Tsars, Organizations, Agencies, Institutions, Treaties, Agreements, Negotiations
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, Russian/Former Soviet States History
- Geographical Location: Russia, Europe
- Date: May 10-July 21, 1906
Article abstract: The first meeting of the Duma increases the political clout of radical liberals who lobby for full parliamentary government and unsuccessfully pressure Czar Nicholas II to abandon attempts to preserve his personal autocratic rule.
Summary of Event
The first duma, or Russian parliament, met in May of 1906 to consolidate the constitutional government that had ostensibly been created by Czar Nicholas II by means of the October Manifesto of 1905. The czar granted the manifesto in the hope that further violence, such as that which had...
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