{{Short description|none}} {{use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox election | country = Russia | type = legislative | previous_election = January 1907 Russian legislative election | previous_year = January 1907 | next_election = 1912 Russian legislative election | next_year = 1912 | seats_for_election = All 442 seats in the State Duma | majority_seats = 223 | election_date = October 1907 | turnout =
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<!-- Renovation --> | image3 = {{CSS image crop|Image =ShipovDN.jpg|bSize = 250|cWidth = 100|cHeight = 130|oTop = 35|oLeft = 82}} | leader3 = Dmitry Shipov | party3 = Renovation | color3 = 3F7FCD | seats3 = 28
<!-- RSDLP --> | image4 = {{CSS image crop|Image =Julius Martov 1910 Edit.jpg|bSize = 135|cWidth = 100|cHeight = 130|oTop = 02|oLeft = 11}} | leader4 = Julius Martov | party4 = Russian Social Democratic Labour Party | seats4 = 19
<!-- Trudovik --> | image5 = {{CSS image crop|Image =Aladjin.jpg|bSize = 260|cWidth = 100|cHeight = 130|oTop = 5|oLeft = 75}} | leader5 = Alexey Aladyin | party5 = Trudoviks | seats5 = 14
| title = Chairman | posttitle = Chairman-designate | before_election = Fyodor Golovin | before_party = Constitutional Democratic Party | after_election = Nikolay Khomyakov | after_party = Union of October 17 }}{{Politics of Russia}}
Legislative elections were held in the Russian Empire in October 1907 to elect the 442 seats of the Third State Duma. It was the second election to the Duma that year after the January 1907 Russian election.
In June 1907, the Duma was forcibly dissolved by the Russian government, and some of its deputies arrested. Following the dissolution, the laws regarding elections were amended to favour wealthy pro-government Russians. The dissolution, arrest, and new electoral law were all done in violation of the Russian Constitution of 1906 as the Duma did not consent to any of the three actions.
The Union of October 17 emerged as the largest party in the election, winning 154 of the 442 seats. Other rightist parties also made huge gains in the election. Electoral turnout fell massively compared to the prior State Duma elections.
==Second State Duma== {{Further|State Duma (Russian Empire)#Second Duma}} The second State Duma, focused on discussing questions of agrarian land reform and rights for national minorities in the Empire.<ref name=":27">{{Harvb|Marsh|2002|p=20}}</ref> Much of the second Duma's agenda was drafted and negotiated in spite of the government and the State Council of the Russian Empire.<ref name=":27" />
== Dissolution and the June coup == {{Main|Coup of June 1907}}On {{OldStyleDate|14 June|1907|1 June}} Pyotr Stolypin—the Prime Minister of the Russian Empire—spoke before the Duma claiming that there was a plot by the <bdi>Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party</bdi> <bdi>(RSDLP)</bdi>.<ref name=":25">{{Harvb|Pares|1923|pp=52-53}}</ref> The accusations were flawed, and included muddled updates and information.<ref name=":25" /> Nevertheless, Stolypin demanded the Duma suspend the legal immunity of the accused deputies.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":16">{{Harvb|Hosking|1973|p=41}}</ref> The Duma instead established a Special Committee to independently investigate the claims.<ref name=":2">{{Harvb|Pares|1923|p=53}}</ref><ref name=":16" /> The Special Committee sat all day on 15 June, and into 1:30{{nbsp}}am on the morning of 16 June.<ref name=":2" />
At 5:00{{nbsp}}am on {{OldStyleDate|16 June||3 June}}, Tsar Nicholas II forcibly dissolved the State Duma by decree,<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Harvb|Marsh|2002|pp=20–21}}</ref> calling for new elections to begin on 1 September and for the Third Duma to begin on the 1 November.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1966|p=339}}</ref><ref name=":17">{{Harvb|Hosking|1973|p=43}}</ref> The decree claimed that members of the Duma had been conspiring against the Government and the Tsar.<ref>{{Harvb|Pares|1923|pp=53-54}}</ref> According to the Russian Constitution of 1906, members of the Duma were not meant to be imprisoned without their legal immunity being suspended by the Duma,<ref name=":2" /> and being sentenced by a court.<ref>{{Harvb|Pares|1923|p=42}}</ref> Despite this, a number of RSDLP deputies were detained and imprisoned for months without trial, and without State Duma approval.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1966|pp=342-344}}</ref><ref name=":20">{{Cite news |date=25 June 1907 |title=Make First Open Attack On Tsar |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1907-06-25_56_18-049/page/n1/mode/2up?q=russia |work=The New York Times |via=Internet Archive |volume=56 |issue=18049}}</ref>
Quickly following the dissolution, the new Electoral Law 1907 was enacted by decree.<ref name=":0">{{Harvb|Levin|1962|p=660}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Harvb|Pares|1923|pp=54–55}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Harvb|Milyukov|1917|p=28}}</ref> The new election laws favoured conservative and rightist elements of the Duma,<ref name=":0" /> as well as being particularly bias electorally towards Russians and wealthy landowners.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1973|pp=3–4}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Harvb|Doctorow|1979|pp=43-44}}</ref><ref name=":18">{{Harvb|Hosking|1973|pp=42-43}}</ref> These changes were designed to further disparage peasants and workers, as well as non-Russians in the empire, from influence within the State Duma.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":9" /><ref name=":1">{{Harvb|Marsh|2002|p=21}}</ref><ref>{{Harvb|Hosking|1973|pp=43-44}}</ref> The new law also changed the proportion of electors.<ref>{{Harvb|Pares|1923|p=55}}</ref><ref>{{Harvb|Doctorow|1979|p=43}}</ref><ref name=":18" /> In total, the Electoral Law 1907 resulted in the number of State Duma members being reduced from 524 deputies down to 442.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{harvb|Levin|1973|pp=96, 110–111}}; Note that this source makes what is likely an erroneous reference to there being 444 seats on page 4.</ref> The Stolypin government hoped that these changes would both promote a maluable duma, whilst still permitting some level of representation.
These series of actions were of dubious legality.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1962|p=661}}</ref><ref name=":10">{{Harvb|Doctorow|1979|p=43}}</ref> The Duma was not supposed to be altered without the approval of the Duma.<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":11">{{Harvb|Pares|1923|p=55}}</ref><ref name=":7" /> The imposed new electoral laws, coupled with the forced dissolution of the State Duma, represented a coup d'état by the Stolypin government and Nicholas II.<ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11" /><ref>{{Harvb|Hosking|1973|p=28}}</ref>
== Parties and political fractions campaign == Only political parties to the right of the Kadets were officially legal.<ref name=":4">{{Harvb|Levin|1973|p=7}}</ref>
Extreme Rightist fraction was made up of various far-right political parties, such as Union of the Russian People, Russian Assembly, and the Russian Monarchist Union.<ref name=":4" />
The Union of October 17 (Octoberists) believed the June Coup to be illegal but necessary.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1973|p=18}}</ref> The Octoberists also believed that the new electoral laws would benefit them in the upcoming election.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1973|pp=96-97}}</ref>
In September 1906, members of the Octobersits split off to found the Party of Peaceful Renovation due to the Octoberists support of repression.<ref name=":26">{{Harvb|Levin|1973|pp=24–25}}</ref> The party was initially led by {{ill|Pyotr Heiden|ru|Гейден, Пётр Александрович}}, and was quickly followed by Dmitry Shipov after Heiden's death.<ref name=":26" /> In contrast to the Octoberists, the Peaceful Renovationists took a critical opinion of the June Coup, the repeated dissolutions of the Duma, and the Stolypin government.<ref name=":26" />
The Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) did not feel confident in whole-heartedly opposing the June Coup.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1973|pp=26–27}}</ref> The Kadets had already been damaged by the repression following the Vyborg Appeal after the dissolution of the first Duma,<ref name=":21" /> going into the October elections, the party adopted a policy of 'Correct Siege'<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1962|pp=661-662}}</ref><ref name=":21">{{Harvb|Pares|1923|p=44}}</ref> The Kadets were alarmed at the increasing apathy and alienation regarding the Duma,<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1962|p=668}}</ref> they attempted to combat among their supporters by supporting engagement with registration and the election.<ref name=":22" />
The Trudoviks had shifted towards the left as frustrations mounted regarding ineffective reform efforts, as well as the moderatism of Kadets.<ref name=":23">{{Harvb|Levin|1973|p=38}}</ref> This was furthered by frustrations with the June Coup.<ref name=":24">{{Harvb|Levin|1973|p=39}}</ref> Whilst still choosing to participate in the elections,<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1973|pp=39-40}}</ref> the Trudoviks increasingly took to organising outside of a Duma they considered unreliable.<ref name=":24" />
The Popular Socialist Party was heavily divided on the question of participation in the upcoming elections, with the party's governing body narrowly voting to support participating.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1973|p=37}}</ref> The party encouraged its supporters to engage in election campaigning.<ref name=":23" /> Hoping to achieve legal legitimacy, the Popular Socialists published a list of members, however this resulted in several of the party's candidates being struck off.<ref name=":23" />
The Socialist Revolutionary Party's Central Committee voted for the party to boycott the upcoming elections altogether and made no serious effort to prepare for them in an official capacity.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1973|p=40}}</ref> Despite this, some campaigning was conducted by members and affiliated orgsanisation.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1973|p=41}}</ref>
By autumn 1907, the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) was suffering organisational difficulty.<ref name=":8">{{Harvb|Levin|1973|p=42}}</ref> Bolshevik and Menshevik leaders had been forced abroad due the governments' June crackdown,<ref name=":8" /> and many members of the RSDLP Duma group were held in detention without trial for months.<ref name=":20" />
== Registration and electoral process == thumb|Peasants voting in a township office|235x235px {{See also|Electoral college|Suffrage#Census sufferage}} The Interior Ministry set {{OldStyleDate|7 July|3=30 June}} as the deadline for voter registration,<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1962|p=669}}; {{Harvb|Levin|1973|p=78}}</ref> and required that all lists on registration be published by {{OldStyleDate|7 August|3=25 July}}.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1962|p=663}}; {{Harvb|Levin|1973|p=73}}</ref>
The electoral system divided the electorate into six curiae, three of which were countryside curiae, and three of which were urban.<ref name=":12">{{Harvb|Milyukov|1917|p=35}}</ref> The three rural curiae were big landowners, small landowners, and peasants, with the three city curiae being the urban rich, the urban middle class, and workers.<ref name=":12"/>
Big landowners and the urban rich curae were the most favoured by the Electoral Law 1907.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1962|pp=670-671}}; {{Harvb|Levin|1973|p=80}}</ref> Big landowners were automatically registered and could directly participate in ''Uyezd'' assemblies<ref name=":18"/><ref name=":19"/> Urban rich could also directly participate in ''Uyezd'' assemblies.<ref name=":19"/> Small landowners had to go through preparatory assemblies prior to the ''Uyezd'' ones<ref name=":18"/><ref name=":19"/>
Those eligible to be in both the urban rich and middle-class curiae were able to request which one they wished to be listed under.<ref name=":13">{{Harvb|Levin|1962|p=662}}</ref> Additionally, those in the urban rich curia could choose to register either in the precinct where they lived, or the one in which they owned businesses, with the first being the default unless they requested otherwise.<ref name=":13"/> Landowners with estates spanning multiple counties were registered to the county which they owned the most land.<ref name=":13"/> Members of the working class and the peasant class were forbidden from any similar options and were restricted only to their own curiae.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1962|pp=662-663}}</ref>
Only workers employed in factories or other businesses with more than 50 workers were entitled to vote in the working-class curia.<ref name=":14">{{Harvb|Levin|1962|p=669}}; {{Harvb|Levin|1973|p=79}}</ref> Around 14% of the working class were not eligible to vote due to this rule.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1962|p=669}}: states the number of ineligible workers as 240,000; {{Harvb|Levin|1973|p=79}}: states the number as 24,000</ref> Additionally workers were struck off the electoral register if they undertook strike action<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1962|p=670}}; {{Harvb|Levin|1973|pp=79-80}}</ref> Eligible workers would vote for electors at the factory level, before those electors were sent to the ''Uyezd'' assemblies.<ref name=":19"/> Within big cities, workers were able to vote in direct elections to the Duma.<ref name=":18"/> While direct elections primarily benefited the urban working class, the number of cities with direct elections had decreased from seventeen to seven.<ref name=":18"/>
State pensioners and nontaxpayers renting an apartment were required to write a letter to apply to register for the middle-class curia.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1962|pp=667-668}}; {{Harvb|Levin|1973|pp=76-78}}</ref> The process to register was time-consuming and invasive.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1962|pp=667-669}}</ref> Those who did successfully register could be struck off for voting register for an extensive number of reasons.<ref>{{Harvb|Milyukov|1917|p=38}}</ref> Women were not allowed to vote.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1962|pp=670-671}}; {{Harvb|Levin|1973|p=80}}</ref>
The repeated forced dissolutions of the Duma, paired with the increased impediments and even less fair voting rules imposed by the Electoral Law 1907 resulted in a huge increase in voter apathy and alienation<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1962|pp=666-668}}; {{Harvb|Levin|1973|pp=76-78}}</ref> Worried by the low rate of registration among low-income liberal voters, Kadets, independent lawyers, some newspapers, and other individual politicians attempted to promote electoral participation.<ref name=":22">{{Harvb|Levin|1962|pp=668-669}}; {{Harvb|Levin|1973|pp=78-79}}</ref> Legal aid groups were established to guide voters though the registration process.<ref name=":14" /> There were difficulties compiling the updated registration lists,<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1962|pp=663-665}}; {{Harvb|Levin|1973|pp=73-75}}</ref> such that local administration struggled keep to the deadline set by the Interior Ministry. Groups trying to promote participation requested to Interior Ministry extended the deadline for registration.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1962|p=669}}</ref>
Voter registration lists were at least a third smaller than they had been for the prior election.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1962|p=665}}</ref> Registration fell massively in the major cities—they were halved in Odessa, one-third as large in Minsk, less than one-sixth as large in Kiev less than, one-fifth as large in Moscow, and less than one-third St Petersburg.<ref name=":5"/>
''Uyezd'' elections took place through September to determine the electors for the ''Guberniya'' (province) assemblies.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1973|pp=95, 177}}</ref> Province assemblies were the highest electoral college, and were the bodies able to elect the members of the Duma.<ref name=":18"/><ref name=":19">{{Harvb|Milyukov|1917|pp=36–37}}</ref> At least 2,635 provincial electors were affiliated to government-aligned parties compared to at least 1,937 opposition aligned provincial electors.<ref>{{Harvb|Hosking|1973|p=46}}</ref> Elections to the Duma by the province assemblies took place from 14 October through to 17 October in most provinces, and later in October in the remaining ones.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1973|p=107}}</ref><ref name=":17"/>
==Results== Electoral participation sharply decreased from the previous election.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1962|pp=666-667}}</ref> Turnout for the October election in the cities was only 19% of the electorate, down by 36 percentage points from the January election.<ref name=":5">{{Harvb|Levin|1962|p=666}}</ref> Turnout fell most sharply in the central provinces, down by 40 percentage points.<ref name=":5" />
The election saw a marked shift towards the wealthy. Property owners went from making up 51 per cent of the Duma to 98 per cent,<ref>{{Harvb|Walsh|1950|p=147}}</ref> with approximately half being landlords.<ref name=":1"/><ref>{{Harvb|Walsh|1950|p=147}}: "Furthermore, almost half the members in both the third and fourth dumas were landowners"</ref><ref>{{Harvb|Milyukov|1917|p=29}}: "in the first two Dumas the relative majority of 43 per cent, was composed of peasants, but that 51 per cent.—that is to say an absolute majority—consisted of the landed gentry in the second two Dumas."</ref>
Of the 51 Extreme Rightists elected, at least 32 were members of the far-right party Union of the Russian People.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1973|p=112}}</ref> {{Election results |image=File:October 1907 Russian Duma election.svg |alliance1=Union of October 17 (Octoberists) |seats1=154 |alliance2=Rightist fraction |aspan2=4 |acolor2=#101010 |party2=Extreme Right |color2=#101010 |seats2=51 |party3=Moderate Right |color3=#302BAC |seats3=70 |party4=Nationalist Group |color4=#5E36D4 |seats4=26 |atotalnv5=y |aseats5=147 |alliance6=Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) |acolor6=#6BB393 |seats6=54 |alliance7=Party of Peaceful Renovation |acolor7=#3F7FCD |seats7=28 |alliance8=Russian Social Democratic Labour Party |seats8=19 |alliance9=Trudovik Group |seats9=14 |alliance10=Polish Koło |seats10=11 |acolor10=#F9C2AC |alliance11=Muslim Group |seats11=8 |acolor11=#258288 |alliance12=Polish–Lithuanian–Belarusian Group |seats12=7 |acolor12=#F6953A |source=Levin<ref>{{harvb|Levin|1973|pp=110–111}}</ref> Great Russian Encyclopedia<ref name="GRE"/><br><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://viewer.rsl.ru/ru/rsl01004010378?page=24&rotate=0&theme=black&textLayer=0 |title=Review of the activities of the State Duma of the third convocation. 1907-1912. |language=Russian}}</ref> }}
==Aftermath== The government effort to create a more conservative Duma that would be less hostile to the Stolypin government proved successful.<ref name=":7">{{Harvb|Levin|1973|pp=151}}</ref><ref name=":17"/>
The Octoberist Nikolay Khomyakov was elected as the new President of the Duma,<ref>{{Harvb|Pares|1923|p=44}}</ref> a position he would hold until 1910.
Very early into the State third Duma, tensions developed within the Rightist fraction.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1973|pp=113–115}}</ref> The fraction saw ideological disputes, conduct dispute, and dispute over who the Vice President of the Duma and Assistant Secretary of the Duma.<ref name=":15"/> In mid-November, just after the election, the Moderate Right Fraction and Nationalist Group both split from the Rightist bloc.<ref name=":15">{{Harvb|Levin|1973|pp=113–114}}</ref> An unsuccessful effort was made to reunite the Rightist faction.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1973|p=113}}</ref> In October 1909, the Moderate Rightists and the Nationalist Group united to form the Russian Nationalist fraction.<ref name="GRE">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Государственная дума |encyclopedia=Great Russian Encyclopedia - Digital Edition |url=https://old.bigenc.ru/domestic_history/text/2372888 |access-date=14 March 2025 |last1=Ruskin |first1=D. I. |language=ru |trans-title=State Duma |last2=Chirkin |first2=V. E.}}</ref><ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1973|pp=117–118}}</ref><ref>{{Harvb|Hosking|1973|p=50}}</ref>
Also in mid-November, the Party of Peaceful Renovation formed the Fraction of the Progressists and Peaceful Renovationists, also known as the Progressive Group, with {{Ill|Ivan Yefryemov|ru|Ефремов, Иван Николаевич|et|Ivan Jefremov (poliitik)}} becoming its leader.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1973|p=130}}</ref>
The Election Law 1907 officially listed 446 deputies, however the elections for the four Finnish deputies to the Duma were never to be held due to matters regarding the Grand Duchy of Finland's autonomy.<ref>{{Harvb|Levin|1973|p=182}}</ref>
== Gallery == <gallery widths="160" heights="160" mode="nolines"> File:State Duma at full blast.jpeg|Illustrated supplement to ''Novoe Vremya'' for 19 January 1908 depicting the dome being removed to allow for bills to enter the third Duma faster File:Россия. Президиум и лидеры фракций третьей Государственной Думы 1907-1908гг ГИМ e1t3.jpg|Various fraction and duma group leaders in the third State Duma, as well as the leaders of the Duma itself File:III Russian Duma breakdown by political groups.jpeg|Geographic composition of the State Duma within European Russia at some point within the third State Duma File:Схема выборов.jpg|Duma diagram in Russian </gallery>
== See also == {{div col}} * History of Russia (1894–1917) * Russian Revolution of 1905 * Stolypin reforms * Vyborg Manifesto * October Manifesto * Electoral college * Zemstvo * United Nobility * {{Ill|Electoral Law 1907|ru|Избирательная система 1907 года|preserve=y}} * :ru:Третьеиюньский переворот {{div col end}}
==References== ===Citations=== {{reflist|20em}}
===Works cited=== {{refbegin|25em}} * {{Cite book |last=Levin |first=Alfred |title=The Third Duma: Election and Profile |date=1973 |publisher=Archon Books |isbn=978-0-208-01325-5 |location=Hamden, Connecticut}} * {{Cite book |last=Marsh |first=Christopher |title=Russia at the Polls : Voters, Elections, and Democratization |publisher=CQ Press |year=2002 |isbn=1-56802-629-3 |location=Washington DC |pages=20–21}} * {{Cite journal |last=Walsh |first=Warren B. |date=June 1950 |title=Political Parties in the Russian Dumas |journal=Journal of Modern History |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=144–150|doi=10.1086/237332 }} * {{Cite journal |last=Levin |first=Alfred |date=December 1962 |title=The Russian Voter in the Elections to the Third Duma |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3000580 |journal=Slavic Review |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=660–677 |doi=10.2307/3000580 |jstor=3000580 |issn=0037-6779 |url-access=registration}} * {{Cite book |last=Milyukov |first=Pavel |title=Russian Realities and Problems |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1917 |location=Cambridge |chapter=The Representative System in Russia |chapter-url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Russian_Realities_and_Problems/The_Representative_System_in_Russia |pages=25–46}} * {{Cite journal |last=Pares |first=Bernard |date=June 1923 |title=The Second Duma |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4201686 |journal=The Slavonic Review |volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=36–55 |jstor=4201686 |url-access=registration}} * {{Cite journal |last=Doctorow |first=Gilbert S. |date=1979 |title=The Russian Gentry and the Coup d'état of 3 June 1907 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20169745 |journal=Cahiers du Monde russe et soviétique |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=43–51 |doi=10.3406/cmr.1976.1255 |jstor=20169745 |url-access=registration}} * {{Cite book |last=Levin |first=Alfred |title=The Second Duma: A Study of the Social-Democratic Party and the Russian Constitutional Experiment |date=1966 |publisher=Archon Books |isbn= |location=Hamden, Connecticut|edition=2nd}} * {{Cite book |last=Hosking |first=Geoffrey Alan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gA49AAAAIAAJ |title=The Russian constitutional experiment: government and Duma, 1907-1914 |date=1973 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-20041-5 |series=Soviet and East European studies |location=Cambridge}} {{refend}}
==Further reading== * {{Cite journal |last=Smith |first=C. Jay |date=1958 |title=The Russian Third State Duma: An Analytical Profile |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/126141 |journal=The Russian Review |volume=17 |issue=3 |pages=201–210 |doi=10.2307/126141 |jstor=126141 |issn=0036-0341 |url-access=subscription}} * {{Cite journal |last=Goldenweiser |first=E. A. |date=September 1914 |title=The Russian Duma |url=https://academic.oup.com/psq/article/29/3/408/7256535 |journal=Political Science Quarterly |language=en |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=408–422 |doi=10.2307/2141459 |jstor=2141459 |issn=0032-3195|url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite journal |last=Tokmakoff |first=George |date=1972 |title=P. A. Stolypin and the Second Duma |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4206486 |journal=The Slavonic and East European Review |volume=50 |issue=118 |pages=49–62 |jstor=4206486 |issn=0037-6795}} * {{Cite news |date=15 June 1907 |title=Duma Menaced by Stolypin |work=The New York Times |page=1|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1907/06/15/archives/duma-menaced-by-stolypin-demands-that-parliament-surrender-16.html|url-access=subscription|via=TimesMachine}} * {{Cite news |date=17 June 1907 |title=Duma dissolved by the Tsar |url=https://www.theguardian.com/century/1899-1909/Story/0,,126390,00.html |work=The Guardian |via=GuardianCentury}} * https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/66226798 * https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Reactionary_Tradition_in_the_Electio.html?id=xCTUAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
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