MLA Commons | Ivan Sablin | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/sayiwan/activity/ Activity feed for Ivan Sablin. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:16:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2cbbf112bfdfdd9c59ec9d3ec4ef32e5 Ivan Sablin deposited Parliaments in the Late Russian Empire, Revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet Union in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874497/ Sat, 03 Feb 2024 03:00:03 -0500 This book examines the meanings that were attached to the terms “parliament” and “parliamentarism” in the different historical and discursive contexts of the late Russian Empire, revolutionary and Soviet Russia, and the Soviet Union. It discusses those institutions referred to as parliaments by contemporaries, gives special attention to their f…[Read more]

]]> 0 15d71d5aa01bb13b7f5a391da4ff16dd Ivan Sablin deposited Parliaments in the Late Russian Empire, Revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet Union https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874412/ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 09:16:40 -0500 This book examines the meanings that were attached to the terms “parliament” and “parliamentarism” in the different historical and discursive contexts of the late Russian Empire, revolutionary and Soviet Russia, and the Soviet Union. It discusses those institutions referred to as parliaments by contemporaries, gives special attention to their f…[Read more]

]]> 0 e8559cd1126d6ff8b629cd57a63ad556 Ivan Sablin deposited The European Union in the Russian State Duma Debates, 1994–2004 in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1872625/ Thu, 25 Jan 2024 03:02:46 -0500 Although the European Union (EU) was occasionally presented in a positive light in the lower house of the Russian parliament (the State Duma) in 1994–2004, there were also numerous criticisms of the EU and the “European community” in a broader sense. The discussions were accompanied by vocally articulated anxieties by those factions that were…[Read more]

]]> 0 7937f0dd34b4b109a3dc0c78cb9ebf9d Ivan Sablin deposited The European Union in the Russian State Duma Debates, 1994–2004 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1872314/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 18:54:26 -0500 Although the European Union (EU) was occasionally presented in a positive light in the lower house of the Russian parliament (the State Duma) in 1994–2004, there were also numerous criticisms of the EU and the “European community” in a broader sense. The discussions were accompanied by vocally articulated anxieties by those factions that were…[Read more]

]]> 0 01727fc0aa8526b55ff6a7d8166dbb64 Ivan Sablin deposited An imperial community: Difference and inclusionary approaches to Russianness in the State Duma, 1906–1907 in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1821156/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 02:26:20 -0500 Focusing on the debates in the First and Second State Duma of the Russian Empire, the article argues that the imperial parliament was the site for articulating and developing multiple approaches to political community. Together with the better studied particularistic discourses, which were based on ethno-national, religious, regional, social…[Read more]

]]> 0 e55ac2ae33d3206194a1b3ae8cae46bb Ivan Sablin deposited An imperial community: Difference and inclusionary approaches to Russianness in the State Duma, 1906–1907 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1821098/ Wed, 09 Nov 2022 19:57:33 -0500 Focusing on the debates in the First and Second State Duma of the Russian Empire, the article argues that the imperial parliament was the site for articulating and developing multiple approaches to political community. Together with the better studied particularistic discourses, which were based on ethno-national, religious, regional, social…[Read more]

]]> 0 b6847a6e09791e7e9810a54e924ce356 Ivan Sablin deposited A Spiritual Perestroika: Religion in the Late Soviet Parliaments, 1989–1991 in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1819738/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 02:24:21 -0400 The article discusses various meanings which were ascribed to religion in the parliamentary debates of the perestroika period, which included Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, and other religious and lay deputies. Understood in a general sense, religion was supposed to become the foundation or an element of a new ideology and stimulate Soviet or…[Read more]

]]> 0 0802eedfc53ceb73bb77f570075e646f Ivan Sablin deposited A Spiritual Perestroika: Religion in the Late Soviet Parliaments, 1989–1991 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1819652/ Wed, 02 Nov 2022 12:55:53 -0400 The article discusses various meanings which were ascribed to religion in the parliamentary debates of the perestroika period, which included Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, and other religious and lay deputies. Understood in a general sense, religion was supposed to become the foundation or an element of a new ideology and stimulate Soviet or…[Read more]

]]> 0 a56aff0a706fb81f3509a3ef7f66d594 Ivan Sablin deposited Constitution-making in the informal Soviet empire in Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Inner Asia, 1945–1955 in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792664/ Sun, 04 Sep 2022 02:24:51 -0400 This chapter provides an overview of dependent constitution-making under one-party regimes in Albania, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, North Korea, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia during the first decade after the Second World War. Employing and further developing the concept of the informal Soviet empire, it…[Read more]

]]> 0 64fe2f4046d8ff8ca9aa61f7a3389391 Ivan Sablin deposited Introduction: Parties from Vanguards to Governments in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792663/ Sun, 04 Sep 2022 02:24:49 -0400 Over the course of the twentieth century, a broad array of parties as organizations of a new type took over state functions and replaced state institutions on the territories of the former Ottoman, Qing, Russian, and Habsburg Empires. In the context of roughly simultaneous imperial and postimperial transformations, organizations such as the…[Read more]

]]> 0 c0bb6c3ed1341800cd8e9f47cf15c0d1 Ivan Sablin deposited Parties as Governments in Eurasia, 1913–1991: Nationalism, Socialism, and Development in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792662/ Sun, 04 Sep 2022 02:24:45 -0400 This book examines the political parties which emerged in the former Ottoman, Qing, Russian, and Habsburg empires and not only took over government power, but merged with government itself. It discusses how these parties, disillusioned with previous constitutional and parliamentary reforms, justified their takeovers with programs of controlled or…[Read more]

]]> 0 2fb38f930b4b379324b929afbfafac8b Ivan Sablin deposited Constitution-making in the informal Soviet empire in Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Inner Asia, 1945–1955 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792627/ Sat, 03 Sep 2022 17:31:23 -0400 This chapter provides an overview of dependent constitution-making under one-party regimes in Albania, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, North Korea, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia during the first decade after the Second World War. Employing and further developing the concept of the informal Soviet empire, it…[Read more]

]]> 0 bd5f96ffd61cb55e76016cefa7575b65 Ivan Sablin deposited Introduction: Parties from Vanguards to Governments https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792625/ Sat, 03 Sep 2022 17:27:13 -0400 Over the course of the twentieth century, a broad array of parties as organizations of a new type took over state functions and replaced state institutions on the territories of the former Ottoman, Qing, Russian, and Habsburg Empires. In the context of roughly simultaneous imperial and postimperial transformations, organizations such as the…[Read more]

]]> 0 cd31a3b09c5429783d84e6d81bc3df8c Ivan Sablin deposited Parties as Governments in Eurasia, 1913–1991: Nationalism, Socialism, and Development https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792624/ Sat, 03 Sep 2022 17:23:16 -0400 This book examines the political parties which emerged in the former Ottoman, Qing, Russian, and Habsburg empires and not only took over government power, but merged with government itself. It discusses how these parties, disillusioned with previous constitutional and parliamentary reforms, justified their takeovers with programs of controlled or…[Read more]

]]> 0 966b10885304389d783c08bf9cce69b8 Ivan Sablin deposited The State Conference in Moscow, 1917: class, nationality, and the building of a post-imperial community in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1777285/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 02:34:03 -0400 The State Conference in Moscow, a one-time quasi-parliamentary assembly of over 2,500 delegates, was intended to help the Provisional Government resolve the military, political, and economic crises of the First World War and the Russian Revolution by building a broad public consensus. Due to the inadequate representation at the conference, its…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c81a8e9d1ed0201ca204304562b5c18 Ivan Sablin deposited The State Conference in Moscow, 1917: class, nationality, and the building of a post-imperial community https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1777270/ Mon, 04 Apr 2022 23:08:45 -0400 The State Conference in Moscow, a one-time quasi-parliamentary assembly of over 2,500 delegates, was intended to help the Provisional Government resolve the military, political, and economic crises of the First World War and the Russian Revolution by building a broad public consensus. Due to the inadequate representation at the conference, its…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b2caf1e7d21cba3cf7d009de7f232a3 Ivan Sablin deposited The Democratic Conference and the Pre-Parliament in Russia, 1917: Class, Nationality, and the Building of a Postimperial Community in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1759460/ Tue, 23 Nov 2021 02:23:43 -0500 The article offers a detailed analysis of the debates at the All-Russian Democratic Conference and in the Provisional Council of the Russian Republic (the Pre-Parliament), which followed the proclamation of the republic on September 1, 1917, and predated the Bolshevik-led insurgency on October 25. The two assemblies were supposed to help resolve…[Read more]

]]> 0 321ed389fdce3ae5212317f902e0c685 Ivan Sablin deposited The Democratic Conference and the Pre-Parliament in Russia, 1917: Class, Nationality, and the Building of a Postimperial Community https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1759336/ Mon, 22 Nov 2021 13:43:37 -0500 The article offers a detailed analysis of the debates at the All-Russian Democratic Conference and in the Provisional Council of the Russian Republic (the Pre-Parliament), which followed the proclamation of the republic on September 1, 1917, and predated the Bolshevik-led insurgency on October 25. The two assemblies were supposed to help resolve…[Read more]

]]> 0 406a4e3d773616f998330b11d014c8c8 Ivan Sablin deposited Poslankyně neruského původu v sovětském parlamentu, 1989–1991: Intersekcionalita v imperiální situaci in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739128/ Sun, 23 May 2021 02:23:53 -0400 The study focuses on the position of female deputies of non-Russian descent in parliamentary debates of the Perestroika period in the Soviet Union. The key issues the author examines concern the grievances which these female deputies were pointing out, and the potential solutions they were proposing to mitigate or eliminate them. The most…[Read more]

]]> 0 9ca57bf65b451f7abbbef0eaa7d7e77d Ivan Sablin deposited Poslankyně neruského původu v sovětském parlamentu, 1989–1991: Intersekcionalita v imperiální situaci in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1739127/ Sun, 23 May 2021 02:23:40 -0400 The study focuses on the position of female deputies of non-Russian descent in parliamentary debates of the Perestroika period in the Soviet Union. The key issues the author examines concern the grievances which these female deputies were pointing out, and the potential solutions they were proposing to mitigate or eliminate them. The most…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c743a78837b247a11ac5a147df1248f Ivan Sablin deposited Poslankyně neruského původu v sovětském parlamentu, 1989–1991: Intersekcionalita v imperiální situaci https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739097/ Sat, 22 May 2021 17:42:22 -0400 The study focuses on the position of female deputies of non-Russian descent in parliamentary debates on the perestroika in the last years of the existence of Soviet Union. The key issues the author examines concern the grievances which these female deputies were pointing out, and what potential solutions they were proposing to mitigate or…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a0da6507a0be55e40b1e5150d73fdc6 Ivan Sablin deposited Introduction in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1733716/ Sat, 03 Apr 2021 02:30:38 -0400 Parliaments are often seen as institutions peculiar to the Euro-American world. In contrast, their establishment elsewhere is frequently thought of as a derivative and mostly defective process. Such simplistic tales of unilateral and imperfect transfers of knowledge have led to a suboptimal understanding of non-Western experiences, as well as of…[Read more]

]]> 0 35e619343f78524d2aceb10c23e039c5 Ivan Sablin deposited Duma, yuan, and beyond: Conceptualizing parliaments and parliamentarism in and after the Russian and Qing Empires in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1733715/ Sat, 03 Apr 2021 02:30:36 -0400 The chapter focuses on two new institutions, the State Duma (Gosudarstvennaia duma) and Political Consultative Council (Zizhengyuan), which were introduced in the Russian and Qing Empires, when the two imperial formations joined the global constitutional transformations. The names of the two bodies pointed to the statist (etatist) rather than…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ae46990f87c1a35325362d6d467064b Ivan Sablin deposited Duma, yuan, and beyond: Conceptualizing parliaments and parliamentarism in and after the Russian and Qing Empires in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1733714/ Sat, 03 Apr 2021 02:30:24 -0400 The chapter focuses on two new institutions, the State Duma (Gosudarstvennaia duma) and Political Consultative Council (Zizhengyuan), which were introduced in the Russian and Qing Empires, when the two imperial formations joined the global constitutional transformations. The names of the two bodies pointed to the statist (etatist) rather than…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c9cba9218ad8593ff927503ff89939e Ivan Sablin deposited The assembly of the land (zemskii sobor): Historiographies and mythologies of a Russian “parliament” in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1733713/ Sat, 03 Apr 2021 02:30:22 -0400 Focusing on the term zemskii sobor, this study explored the historiographies of the early modern Russian assemblies, which the term denoted, as well as the autocratic and democratic mythologies connected to it. Historians have debated whether the individual assemblies in the sixteenth and seventeenth century could be seen as a coherent…[Read more]

]]> 0 206e34e0aa078443eda41b7e2b25d9de Ivan Sablin deposited The assembly of the land (zemskii sobor): Historiographies and mythologies of a Russian “parliament” in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1733712/ Sat, 03 Apr 2021 02:30:09 -0400 Focusing on the term zemskii sobor, this study explored the historiographies of the early modern Russian assemblies, which the term denoted, as well as the autocratic and democratic mythologies connected to it. Historians have debated whether the individual assemblies in the sixteenth and seventeenth century could be seen as a coherent…[Read more]

]]> 0 b2cb961024037cdcaa07c7cd514e39bf Ivan Sablin deposited Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850–1950: Concepts, Practices, and Mythologies in the group Ukrainian Studies https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1733711/ Sat, 03 Apr 2021 02:30:09 -0400 Parliaments are often seen as Western European and North American institutions and their establishment in other parts of the world as a derivative and mostly defective process. This book challenges such Eurocentric visions by retracing the evolution of modern institutions of collective decision-making in Eurasia. Breaching the divide between…[Read more]

]]> 0 61b10e7d6d0fcf4371875e01e993849c Ivan Sablin deposited Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850–1950: Concepts, Practices, and Mythologies in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1733710/ Sat, 03 Apr 2021 02:30:07 -0400 Parliaments are often seen as Western European and North American institutions and their establishment in other parts of the world as a derivative and mostly defective process. This book challenges such Eurocentric visions by retracing the evolution of modern institutions of collective decision-making in Eurasia. Breaching the divide between…[Read more]

]]> 0 26dbe489227bebd64a2a54294301de22 Ivan Sablin deposited Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850–1950: Concepts, Practices, and Mythologies in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1733709/ Sat, 03 Apr 2021 02:29:54 -0400 Parliaments are often seen as Western European and North American institutions and their establishment in other parts of the world as a derivative and mostly defective process. This book challenges such Eurocentric visions by retracing the evolution of modern institutions of collective decision-making in Eurasia. Breaching the divide between…[Read more]

]]> 0 eca0dbbdb2a6dcd7b8d807ecc4cdd3af Ivan Sablin deposited Introduction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1733642/ Fri, 02 Apr 2021 15:31:27 -0400 Parliaments are often seen as institutions peculiar to the Euro-American world. In contrast, their establishment elsewhere is frequently thought of as a derivative and mostly defective process. Such simplistic tales of unilateral and imperfect transfers of knowledge have led to a suboptimal understanding of non-Western experiences, as well as of…[Read more]

]]> 0 bcf16ee33979df9a646551ca05c04d37 Ivan Sablin deposited The assembly of the land (zemskii sobor): Historiographies and mythologies of a Russian “parliament” https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1733641/ Fri, 02 Apr 2021 15:27:17 -0400 Focusing on the term zemskii sobor, this study explored the historiographies of the early modern Russian assemblies, which the term denoted, as well as the autocratic and democratic mythologies connected to it. Historians have debated whether the individual assemblies in the sixteenth and seventeenth century could be seen as a coherent…[Read more]

]]> 0 984274fe963a3ac11e0741c11709ad90 Ivan Sablin deposited Duma, yuan, and beyond: Conceptualizing parliaments and parliamentarism in and after the Russian and Qing Empires https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1733640/ Fri, 02 Apr 2021 15:23:03 -0400 The chapter focuses on two new institutions, the State Duma (Gosudarstvennaia duma) and Political Consultative Council (Zizhengyuan), which were introduced in the Russian and Qing Empires, when the two imperial formations joined the global constitutional transformations. The names of the two bodies pointed to the statist (etatist) rather than…[Read more]

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]]> 0 fffb60d584f909ee12854cde033c1764 Ivan Sablin deposited Khural democracy: Imperial transformations and the making of the first Mongolian constitution, 1911–1924 in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1722913/ Wed, 13 Jan 2021 02:23:53 -0500 The political system of early socialist-era Mongolia, established by the first Constitution in 1924, can be interpreted as a vernacular version of the Soviet system, in which the formally supreme representative body, the State Great Khural (“assembly”), was sidelined by the standing Presidium of the Small Khural and the Cabinet and eclipsed by the…[Read more]

]]> 0 fffb60d584f909ee12854cde033c1764 Ivan Sablin deposited Khural democracy: Imperial transformations and the making of the first Mongolian constitution, 1911–1924 in the group Central Asian Studies https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1722912/ Wed, 13 Jan 2021 02:23:53 -0500 The political system of early socialist-era Mongolia, established by the first Constitution in 1924, can be interpreted as a vernacular version of the Soviet system, in which the formally supreme representative body, the State Great Khural (“assembly”), was sidelined by the standing Presidium of the Small Khural and the Cabinet and eclipsed by the…[Read more]

]]> 0 9743d1ee8d4dc8a7ef079a502ce37a2f Ivan Sablin deposited Khural democracy: Imperial transformations and the making of the first Mongolian constitution, 1911–1924 in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1722911/ Wed, 13 Jan 2021 02:23:40 -0500 The political system of early socialist-era Mongolia, established by the first Constitution in 1924, can be interpreted as a vernacular version of the Soviet system, in which the formally supreme representative body, the State Great Khural (“assembly”), was sidelined by the standing Presidium of the Small Khural and the Cabinet and eclipsed by the…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d7d55b2422a78db83c4a46b5c9e8547 Ivan Sablin deposited Khural democracy: Imperial transformations and the making of the first Mongolian constitution, 1911–1924 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1722853/ Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:09:07 -0500 The political system of early socialist-era Mongolia, established by the first Constitution in 1924, can be interpreted as a vernacular version of the Soviet system, in which the formally supreme representative body, the State Great Khural (“assembly”), was sidelined by the standing Presidium of the Small Khural and the Cabinet and eclipsed by the…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d1fa1617a1510deb5c8eb19ccf0adfe Ivan Sablin deposited Russia in the Global Parliamentary Moment, 1905–1918: Between a Subaltern Empire and an Empire of Subalterns (Locating the Global: Spaces, Networks and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, ed. by Holger Weiss. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020, pp. 257–282) in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1710639/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 02:24:14 -0400 The chapter analyzed the debates on parliamentarism in the late Russian Empire and revolutionary Russia and explored how the idea of parliament helped intellectuals locate Russia globally. The establishment of the legislative State Duma and the adoption of the Fundamental Laws of the Russian Empire during the Revolution of 1905–1907 seemed to m…[Read more]

]]> 0 8db6e523e931860b778ad74e518bf05f Ivan Sablin deposited Russia in the Global Parliamentary Moment, 1905–1918: Between a Subaltern Empire and an Empire of Subalterns (Locating the Global: Spaces, Networks and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, ed. by Holger Weiss. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020, pp. 257–282) in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1710638/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 02:24:02 -0400 The chapter analyzed the debates on parliamentarism in the late Russian Empire and revolutionary Russia and explored how the idea of parliament helped intellectuals locate Russia globally. The establishment of the legislative State Duma and the adoption of the Fundamental Laws of the Russian Empire during the Revolution of 1905–1907 seemed to m…[Read more]

]]> 0 abbd279ace6ddf92b3a024a844f05828 Ivan Sablin deposited Parliamentary Formations and Diversities in (Post-)Imperial Eurasia, ed. by Ivan Sablin (Journal of Eurasian Studies, vol. 11, nos. 1 and 2, 2020, Special Issue) in the group Ukrainian Studies https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1710637/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 02:24:02 -0400 Addressing the entangled histories of deliberative decision making, political representation, and constitutionalism in several geographic and temporal contexts, this Special Issue offers nuanced political and intellectual histories and anthropologies of parliamentarism in Eurasia. It explores parliaments and quasi-parliamentary formations and the…[Read more]

]]> 0 50a517b993fa2f7ba65e3476447afb66 Ivan Sablin deposited Parliamentary Formations and Diversities in (Post-)Imperial Eurasia, ed. by Ivan Sablin (Journal of Eurasian Studies, vol. 11, nos. 1 and 2, 2020, Special Issue) in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1710636/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 02:24:00 -0400 Addressing the entangled histories of deliberative decision making, political representation, and constitutionalism in several geographic and temporal contexts, this Special Issue offers nuanced political and intellectual histories and anthropologies of parliamentarism in Eurasia. It explores parliaments and quasi-parliamentary formations and the…[Read more]

]]> 0 d2ad26b59bad65645feef2a73c9197c9 Ivan Sablin deposited Parliamentary Formations and Diversities in (Post-)Imperial Eurasia, ed. by Ivan Sablin (Journal of Eurasian Studies, vol. 11, nos. 1 and 2, 2020, Special Issue) in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1710635/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 02:23:46 -0400 Addressing the entangled histories of deliberative decision making, political representation, and constitutionalism in several geographic and temporal contexts, this Special Issue offers nuanced political and intellectual histories and anthropologies of parliamentarism in Eurasia. It explores parliaments and quasi-parliamentary formations and the…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf56f8f521b32dd6bad70c8682974d04 Ivan Sablin deposited Russia in the Global Parliamentary Moment, 1905–1918: Between a Subaltern Empire and an Empire of Subalterns (Locating the Global: Spaces, Networks and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, ed. by Holger Weiss. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020, pp. 257–282) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1710538/ Thu, 01 Oct 2020 11:03:26 -0400 The chapter analyzed the debates on parliamentarism in the late Russian Empire and revolutionary Russia and explored how the idea of parliament helped intellectuals locate Russia globally. The establishment of the legislative State Duma and the adoption of the Fundamental Laws of the Russian Empire during the Revolution of 1905–1907 seemed to m…[Read more]

]]> 0 54400837caae28e543ef791c344413c1 Ivan Sablin deposited Parliamentary Formations and Diversities in (Post-)Imperial Eurasia, ed. by Ivan Sablin (Journal of Eurasian Studies, vol. 11, nos. 1 and 2, 2020, Special Issue) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1710537/ Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:55:33 -0400 Addressing the entangled histories of deliberative decision making, political representation, and constitutionalism in several geographic and temporal contexts, this Special Issue offers nuanced political and intellectual histories and anthropologies of parliamentarism in Eurasia. It explores parliaments and quasi-parliamentary formations and the…[Read more]

]]> 0 663b17c17c7488b6f421352b2dd7bd48 Ivan Sablin deposited Soviet federalism from below: The Soviet Republics of Odessa and the Russian Far East, 1917–1918 in the group Ukrainian Studies https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1680638/ Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:26:44 -0400 In early 1918, the Bolshevik-dominated Third Congress of Soviets declared the formation of a new composite polity—the Soviet Russian Republic. The congress’s resolutions, however, simultaneously proclaimed a federation of national republics and a federation of soviets. The latter seemed to recognize regionalism and localism as organizing pri…[Read more]

]]> 0 7405b61d99354d6202e69fe7be6bdcc6 Ivan Sablin deposited Soviet federalism from below: The Soviet Republics of Odessa and the Russian Far East, 1917–1918 in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1680637/ Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:26:42 -0400 In early 1918, the Bolshevik-dominated Third Congress of Soviets declared the formation of a new composite polity—the Soviet Russian Republic. The congress’s resolutions, however, simultaneously proclaimed a federation of national republics and a federation of soviets. The latter seemed to recognize regionalism and localism as organizing pri…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d04eeabf3d9e3298c80e68d4295f974 Ivan Sablin deposited Soviet federalism from below: The Soviet Republics of Odessa and the Russian Far East, 1917–1918 in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1680636/ Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:26:27 -0400 In early 1918, the Bolshevik-dominated Third Congress of Soviets declared the formation of a new composite polity—the Soviet Russian Republic. The congress’s resolutions, however, simultaneously proclaimed a federation of national republics and a federation of soviets. The latter seemed to recognize regionalism and localism as organizing pri…[Read more]

]]> 0 8baeba3df2b352ecafd8c6b914b162bc Ivan Sablin deposited Soviet federalism from below: The Soviet Republics of Odessa and the Russian Far East, 1917–1918 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1680580/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 23:03:03 -0400 In early 1918, the Bolshevik-dominated Third Congress of Soviets declared the formation of a new composite polity—the Soviet Russian Republic. The congress’s resolutions, however, simultaneously proclaimed a federation of national republics and a federation of soviets. The latter seemed to recognize regionalism and localism as organizing pri…[Read more]

]]> 0 bfdcb276d66892f9faf81ceb9ef60edd Ivan Sablin deposited Parliaments and parliamentarism in the works of Soviet dissidents, 1960s–80s in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1641633/ Tue, 04 Jun 2019 16:26:52 -0400 Drawing from samizdat (self-published) and tamizdat (foreign-published) materials, this article traces the understandings of parliaments and parliamentarism in individual works by Soviet dissidents and reconstructs the authors’ underlying assumptions in the application of the two ideas. It focuses on the articulations and the implications of f…[Read more]

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