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  Duma - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
The State Duma in the Russian Empire and Russian Federation corresponds to the lower house of the parliament.
Boyar Duma was an advisory council to the grand princes and tsars of Muscovy.
The State Duma (Russian: Государственная дума (Gosudarstvennaya Duma), common abbreviation: Госдума (Gosduma)) in the Russian Federation is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia (parliament), the upper house being the Federation Council of Russia.
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Under Alexander III, however, by laws promulgated in 1892 and 1894, the municipal dumas were subordinated to the governors in the same way as the zemstvos.
It stated in part that Tsar's ministers could not be appointed by, and were not responsible to, the Duma, thus denying responsible government at the executive level.
The State Duma (Russian: Государственная дума, Gosudarstvennaya Duma, common abbreviation: Госдума, Gosduma) in Russia is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia (parliament), the upper house being the Federation Council of Russia.
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The Duma was discontinued by Peter the Great, who transferred its functions to the Governing Senate in 1721.
However, the Duma would be re-introduced later in Russian history by Tsar Nicholas II, in the pre-Revolutionary period, with the aide of his many advisors such as Stolypin, Snydercha (translated from ?????,) amongst others.
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 State Duma | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
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()The State Duma ((Gosudarstvennaya Duma), common abbreviation: Госдума (Gosduma)) in the Russian Federation is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia (legislature), the upper house being the Federation Council of Russia.
The State Duma replaced the Supreme Soviet as a result of new constitution introduced by Boris Yeltsin, in the aftermath of the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, and approved by the Russian public in a referendum.
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  soviet union - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Revolutionary activity in Russia began with the Decembrist Revolt, uncovered in 1825, and although serfdom was abolished in 1861, its abolition was achieved on terms unfavorable to the peasants and served to encourage revolutionaries.
A parliament, the Duma, was established in 1906, but political and social unrest continued and was aggravated during World War I by military defeat and food shortages.
A spontaneous popular uprising in Petrograd, in response to the wartime decay of Russia's physical well-being and morale, culminated in the toppling of the imperial government in March 1917 (see February Revolution).
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 duma - OneLook Dictionary Search
Duma : The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
duma : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Phrases that include duma: boyarskaya duma, duma dyak, duma gro-lag, duma gro lag, duma khumalo, more...
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 MapDig - 1905
March 3 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly (the Duma).
March 5 - Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing one-hundred thousand troops in three days.
October 30 - Tsar Nicholas II is forced to grant Russia's first constitution, conceding a national assembly (Duma) with limited powers.
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