Immediately after the revolution there was a lack of official responses from Nicholas II, as he failed to listen to the problems of the Russian people and situations that were happening within his own country, and it was only after some serious persuasion from his ministers that he finally understood the …show more content…
This led to the drawing up of the first of two Manifestos’: the August Manifesto. Written up by Alexander Bulygin, the Manifesto presented three important points, firstly, the new elected assembly was to be called the Duma, secondly, the Duma’s purpose was only to give advice to the Tsar and could discuss proposed new laws, but essentially they had no power and could not enforce anything in terms of laws and changes for the Russian people. There was also to a difficult electoral process favoring peasants and landowner. However, urban workers, the national minorities, Jews and much of the intelligentsia were excluded from this and not given suffrage. The liberals were unimpressed by the concessions made by the Tsar as it was far from the parliament and constitution they wanted. Though some ultra-moderate liberals thought that the Manifesto gave a foundation for further discussions, yet nearly everybody else on the opposing side disregarded it as it was complete inadequate. The August Manifesto was entirely superficial and left the priorities of Tsarism intact. Although it could be argued that the concessions introduced in the August Manifesto were