October Manifesto

• duma 


  elected national parliament
• • duma was to be set up
  • censorship would be loosed
  • more freedom of speech
  • redemption payments reduced
  • peasant land banks
• failures

  • the voting system was unfair as the rich had more influence
  • duma had little influence over the Tsar and new laws
  • the first 2 Dumas were dismissed for demanding reforms
  • Nicholas was in charge of the Dumas
  • changed introduced to exclude socialists
• led to the fundamental laws of the Russian empire being published in April 1906
• Fundamental laws

  • Nicholas would hold autocratic power
  • he could only approve laws
  • he held all government powers across Russia
  • he could dismiss the president of the council
  • he declared war and approved peace settlements
  • rule by decree when Duma wasn't in session