Aftermath The Manifesto was met with nearly-universal indifference from the people. That allowed the government to use repressive methods to silence its most outspoken liberal critics. Over 100 leading members of the Kadet Party were brought to trial and then suspended from the Duma for their participation in the manifesto. They were replaced in the Second and the Third Dumas by less radical and less talented politicians than those who had been suspended. The new politicians also went along a more conservative line and stayed within the Tsar's laws to defend the parliament, as the party now lived in the "shadow of the "Vyborg complex"". The entire Kadet leadership was one of the groups that were targeted by being banned from participation in future Dumas. As a result of the events surrounding the Manifesto, the Kadet Party lost all trust in the people's support and no longer claimed to represent them either. Instead, they consciously became what they de facto had been all along, the "natural party" of the bourgeois. The liberals' failure to rally the masses in defence of the Duma in practice left them "high and dry" and only clinging on in the hope of persuading the Tsarist regime to liberalise itself and with an even larger fear of 'the masses'. Despite their change towards conservatism, the government remained suspicious of the Kadets until the fall of the monarchy in 1917. Signatories Pyotr Dmitriyevich Dolgorukov Sergey Muromtsev Pavel Novgorodtsev Sergey Urusov Note: Georgy Lvov became ill whilst travelling to Vyborg and had to return to the capital. It is however clear that he sympathised with it. References Bibliography Gross, David (ed.) We Won’t Pay!: A Tax Resistance Reader, pp. 307–312 Lee, Stephen J. Lenin and Revolutionary Russia, Routledge, 2003 Phillips, Steve. Lenin and the Russian Revolution, Heinemann, 2000, External links Text of Vyborg Manifesto English Translation 1905 Russian Revolution Tax resistance 1906 in the Russian Empire 1906 documents