1st Duma 'Duma Of National Hope' May-July 1906

• Boycotted by the Bolsheviks SRs and the extreme right-wing Union of the Russian People and thus was mostly radical-liberal in composition
• 1/3 of the Duma were peasants and this Duma demanded radical constitutional changes
• When these radical constitutions were refused the Duma passed a ‘vote of no confidence’ in the government but they were dissolved in July and the hard-line Stolypin became Prime Minister
• Frustrated at the dissolution deputies from the first Duma went to Vyborg (Finland) and issued a manifesto asking the Russian people to resist the Tsar through not paying taxes
• However then 200 deputies who made the manifesto were banned from standing for the next Duma and imprisoned the leaders. This was the Vyborg Manifesto