Coup of June 1907

Coup of June 1907
Coup of June 1907
Part of Russian Revolution of 1905
	Cartoon depicting members of the second State Duma drafting a reply to Pyotr Stolypin
Date	June 1907
Location	Russian Empire
Resulted in	Dissolution of the 2nd Imperial Duma; Multiple deputies detained; Election Law of 1907 enacted; Pro-Government parties win the October 1907 legislative election;
Parties
Pro-Government elements Stolypin Government; United Nobility; Right-wing Zemstvos; Union of October 17; URP; ;	Pro-Duma elements State Duma; ;
Lead figures
	Nicholas II; Pyotr Stolypin;

The Coup of June 1907, sometimes known as the Stolypin Coup, was a coup d'état by the cabinet of Pyotr Stolypin and Tsar Nicholas II against the State Duma of the Russian Empire. During the coup, the government dissolved the Second State Duma, arrested dozens of its members and altered the electoral laws regarding elections to the Duma.

The coup saw the government and tsar successfully shift the makeup of future Dumas in the Russian Empire; whereas previous laws had given peasants and other lower-class people a large proportion of electors to the Duma, the new electoral law increased the dominance of the propertied classes, in an effort to avoid election of the large number of liberal and revolutionary deputies who had dominated the First and Second Dumas.

This act is considered by many historians to mark the end of the Russian Revolution of 1905. Although it largely succeeded in this objective, it ultimately failed to preserve the Imperial system, which ceased to exist during the Russian Revolution of 1917.