The Revolution of 19 O Seven Was Not Just About Calling a New Election

Most cities were no longer treated as independent entities, but absorbed into the surrounding rural areas to stop urban liberals from winning seats. Wealthy landowners were awarded many, many more seats than poor rural villages. They also straihed up eliminated about a hundred seats that were awarded to minority nationality communities on the periphery of the empire. The third duma was designed to be an all russian affair. By arbitrarily and unilaterally rewriting the electoral law, the czar was reasserting the principle of absolutism, and he got away with it.