ABSTRACT
The Second State Duma, which opened on February 20, 1907, was elected in accordance with the same electoral law by which the First State Duma had been elected and like the first had a majority of deputies opposed to the government, but by this time political passions had cooled somewhat and revolutionary ferment was dying down. Also many of the opposition figures who had been so prominent in the First State Duma were absent from the second because of the manner in which Stolypin had dealt with the signers of the Vyborg Manifesto.
