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After the Bloody Sunday Revolution of 1905, Tsar Nicholas granted the people a Duma. What is a Duma?

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A duma is a Russian assembly with advisory or legislative functions. The term comes from the Russian verb думать meaning "to think" or "to consider". The first formally constituted duma was the Imperial State Duma introduced to the Russian Empire by Emperor Nicholas II in 1905

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