third duma

• due to the electoral reforms it mainly consisted of people loyal to the tsar
• major reforms strengthened the army and navy
• judicial system was further improved with the return of justices of peace and the abolition of land captains
• state-run insurance schemes for workers introduced
• Nicholas and his ministers showed more trust in the lower chamber
• stolypin did his best to destabilise the duma by manipulating article 87 to create an even bigger bias towards autocracy
• when was it in power

  November 1907-1912