单词 | the duma |
释义 | > as lemmasthe Duma In Russia, an elective municipal council. the Duma, an elective legislative assembly (gosudarstvennaja duma), which was established in 1905 by a ukase of Tsar Nicholas II and lasted until the Revolution of 1917. ΚΠ 1870 Nation 1 Dec. 364/2 Municipal Reform in Russia... The city is governed by a city council (duma) and a city regency (uprava). 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 70/2 Since 1870 the municipalities have had institutions like those of the zemstvos... The executive is in the hands of an elective mayor and an uprava which consists of several members elected by the duma. 1905 Daily Chron. 16 Feb. 5/1 The Douma will consist of delegates of the district councils, each sending five. 1905 Times 19 Aug. 7/2 The Duma is established for the preliminary study and discussion of legislative propositions which..will be submitted to the supreme autocratic authority by the Council of the Empire. 1906 G. Meredith Let. 9 July (1970) III. 1565 The members of the Duma..have shown a memorable self-control. 1955 G. B. Carson Electoral Pract. in U.S.S.R. 2 The most important electoral machinery was that created for elections to the imperial duma. < as lemmas |
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