State Duma violence and upheaval in the Russian Revolution of 1905 and was Russia's first elected parliament. The first two attempts by Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918) to make it active were ineffective. Subsequently, each of these Dumas was dissolved after only a few months. The third Duma was the only one to last to the end of its 5-year term. After the 1907 electoral reform, the third Duma, elected in November 1907, was largely made up of members of the upper classes, as radical influences in the Duma had almost entirely been removed. The establishment of the Duma after the 1905 Revolution
Zolu Duma Zolu Duma Zolu Duma (aka King Peter) was an Gola ruler of the land which now contains Monrovia, Liberia. At a young age Zolu Duma was placed with Wuling, of the Bassa people who had gained importance as a merchant trading with the Europeans. In 1822 Zolu Duma met with representatives of the American Colonization Society, including United States naval officer Robert F. Stockton, who wished to purchase land on which to settle African American emigrants from the United States. Accounts of the meeting stated that Stockton forced Zolu Duma to cede the land at gunpoint: Drawing another pistol and