ABSTRACT
By employing the electoral law of June 3, 1907, and by the liberal use of government funds, Stolypin was able to make certain that the elections to the Third State Duma produced a docile group of deputies, * consisting largely of members of the falsely named Party of October 17, the party that Stolypin now favored. Now that he could rely on the Octobrists to provide him with a majority in the State Duma, he could dispense with the services of the Union of the Russian People, which had received financial and other support from his government. (A. A. Stolypin, his brother, would use a quotation from Schiller in writing in Novoe vremia to indicate the change: “Depart, Moor, you have done your work.”) 1 Because he could now count on good relations with the State Duma, Stolypin felt free to give a reception for about 200 of the deputies shortly after the opening of the State Duma.
