Ebook: The Second Duma: A Study of the Social-Democratic Party and the Russian Constitutional Experiment

From Preface:
I have begun with a study of the Second Duma for it
was here that the government inaugurated the domestic
policies peculiar to the duma period. I feel, moreover, that
the First Duma stands apart from the others as belong-
ing to the chaotic, active, period of the Revolution of
1905. For there were in this body practically no pro-gov-
ernmental forces, and even the mould of liberal thought
was essentially revolutionary. But the First Duma rep-
resents the dawn of the Russian parliamentary era, and
I hope to give it fuller treatment than it has received here
where it is presented as a part of the background for this
study, the Revolution of 1905.