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The Third Duma (1907–12) was returned by a new electoral law which restricted ab initio representation of the national minorities and increased that of the landowners and clergy. It was overwhelmingly composed of right-wing elements. There were two Jewish deputies, N. *Friedman and L. *Nisselovich. The Jews were constantly attacked ...
Aug 6, 2006 · According to Emmons, Formation of Political Parties, p.356, there were 487 deputies in the First Duma on the eve of its dissolution. According to my own calculations there were 499. For the names of the Jewish deputies in the First Duma, see GSD 1906, p.952; M.M. Boiovich (comp.), Chleny Gosudarsvennoi Dumy.
- Shmuel Galai
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- First and Second Dumas, 1906–1907
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Based on universal male suffrage over age twenty-five, elections for the First Duma were on the whole peaceful and orderly, although the indirect system favored nobles and peasants over other groups. The revolutionary Social Democrats and Socialist Revolutionaries boycotted the elections, while the liberal Constitutional Democrats (Cadets) conducte...
Under the Fundamental Laws adopted in 1906 as a semi-constitutional structure for Russia, the tsar could dissolve the Duma and enact emergency legislation in its absence. Using this authority, Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin decreed a new electoral system for the Duma on June 3, 1907. He retained indirect voting but increased the weighting in favor o...
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The first Duma was established with around 500 deputies; most radical left parties, such as the Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party had boycotted the election, leaving the moderate Constitutional Democrats (Kadets) with the most deputies (around 184).
either the First Duma of 1906 or the Second Duma of 1906-07. Twenty-four of the 87 were Octobrists, and 22 were Kadets, but since the former had 148 seats, and the latter, only 52, this meant that the Kadets, among the all-Russian parties, had the most previous Duma experience (the deputies of the Kolo and
Oct 8, 2014 · The Duma in the First World War ↑. Duma deputies on the whole welcomed hostilities. In the spirit of national unity, Octobrist Duma president Mikhail Vladimirovich Rodzianko (1859–1924) agreed to suspension of the legislature. At a one-day session on 26 July (8 August) 1914, representatives of the leading factions called for a pause in ...
He joined the Kadets (Russian Constitutional Democratic Party), taking an active part in the committees of the Duma, and with the other Jewish delegate L. *Nisselovich several times defended the Jews from attacks by the antisemitic deputies. Many Jews and non-Jews were impressed by his defense of the Jewish victims of the pogroms at the end of ...
