The Russian Revolutionary Era - A Work of Mad Discord

15,000 people executed between october manifesto and convening of first duma in april. Forty five thousand deported or exiled, and 70 thousands arrested. Police swept through all the big cities, targeting anyone deemed a threat to regime. They also went after all those news papers that had sprung up in the days of freedom. But these fears turned out to be mistaken as czar promised his people an elected duma.