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The present Douma is the outgrowth of well-nigh a century of agitation dating back to the secret societies which brought about the unsuccessful military insurrection of December 26, 1825.
There is an apocryphal story which has gained currency through the efforts of friendly English journalists, to the effect that Czar Alexander II was about to proclaim a constitution on the very day when the bomb of the terrorists blasted the hopes of the liberal portion of the nation. The story would make a fitting climax for “The mysteries of the court of St. Petersburg.” The pretended “constitution,” however, has since been published and appears to have been nothing but a scheme to create a number of special commissions, with a limited measure of popular representation and with the power to make recommendations to the Imperial Council.
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- Papers and Discussions
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- Proceedings of the American Political Science Association , Volume 7: Seventh Annual Meeting , December 1911 , pp. 53 - 64
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- Copyright © American Political Science Association 1911
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1 The membership of the second Douma was divided according to political affiliation as follows:
Social Democrats................................................... 65
Social Revolutionists.............................................. 36
Populistic Socialists.............................................. 15
Laborites......................................................... 101
Constitutional Democrats............................................91
Poles.............................................................. 46
Moslems............................................................ 28
Cossacks........................................................... 17
Total opposition.................................................. 399
Octobrists and Moderates........................................... 43
Monarchists........................................................ 12
Non-partisan....................................................... 50
Total for the Government........................................... 105
2 The membership of the third Douma is distributed according to party affiliation as follows:
Government Parties
The Right (Supporters of Autocracy)................................ 151
The Centre (Octobrists)............................................ 124
Non-partisan........................................................ 18
Total.............................................................. 293
The Left (Opposition)
Constitutional Democrats............................................ 52
Progressives........................................................ 39
Social Democrats.................................................... 15
Laborites........................................................... 14
Poles and Lithuanians............................................... 18
Moslems.............................................................. 9
Total.............................................................. 147
3 Act of June 14 (27), 1910.
4 Imperial Rescript of April 27 (May 10), 1910.