End of romanvo rule last

Question 1

What were the Fundamental Laws?

Answer 1

• Laws which gave the Tsar the right to autocratic rules that he previously had to claw back power.

Question 2

What did the Fundamental Laws include?

Answer 2

• The Tsar’s right to have absolute power
• The Tsar’s right to dissolve the Duma at any time
• The Tsar’s right to make decisions without confiding in the Duma
• The Tsar’s right to force the Duma into accepting his laws/

Question 3

What was the divide within the bicameral Duma?

Answer 3

• The Upper house, consisting of Tsar loyalists was superior to the lower house, consisting of socialists and opoosers to autocracy.
• The Upper house could veto laws proposed by the lower house.

Question 4

In 2 reasons why were the Fundamental Laws unsatisfactory?

Answer 4

• The limited powers meant that the Tsarists had the ultimate law-making power
• Liberals claimed that their individual rights were meaningless.

Question 5

What was the makeup of the First Duma?

Answer 5

• Octoberists
• Kadets
• Troudoviks

(Due to SR and the RSDLP boycotting elections)

Question 6

What were 3 demands from the new Duma?

Answer 6

• Creation of universal suffrage
• Land reform
• Freedom for political prisoners

Question 7

What was the Vyoberg Manifesto?

Answer 7

• Appeal by the expelled Kadets for Russians to refuse tax until the Duma had been re-established.

Question 7

Why did the Vyoberg Manifesto fail?

Answer 7

• Failed due to the lack of cohesion between working class and middle class as they were seen as compromising and working with the Tsar.

Question 8

How was the political makeup of the second Duma different to the first Duma?

Answer 8

• the Second Duma consisted of Bolsheviks, Mensheviks and SRs and the Kadets lost a considerable amount of power.

Question 9

Why was the Second Duma dissolved?

Answer 9

• The SRs, Bolsheviks and Mensheviks rejected Stolypin’s land reforms and the police saw the Bolsheviks as persuing mutinies leading to the dissolvement of the Duma/

Question 10

What was Stolypin’s electroal law?

Answer 10

• He aimed for future Dumas to be dominated by the conservative, Tsarist politicians and under representative of the working class socialists.

Question 11

How did Stolypin’s electoral law succeed?

Answer 11

• The third and fourth Duma acceepted Stolypin’s land reforms and didn’t issue the radical reforms that previous Dumas had made.
  The Fourth Duma was essentially as conservative as the Third.