Constitutional Practices in Russia, Ukraine, China and Mongolia, 1905–2005
The project “ENTPAR: Entangled Parliamentarisms: Constitutional Practices in Russia, Ukraine, China and Mongolia, 1905–2005,” sponsored by the European Research Council (ERC) in 2018–2023, addressed the entangled histories of deliberative decision making, political representation and constitutionalism on the territories of the former Russian and Qing Empires and focuses on the cases of Russia, Ukraine, China and Mongolia between 1905 and 2005. Employing the perspectives of the New Imperial History and Transcultural Studies, the project aimed to overcome narrow state-centered approaches and takes advantage of multidisciplinary methodology crossing history and political science. The project traced parliamentary developments, the interactions among imperial and post-imperial intellectuals and their engagement in global discussions, shared imperial legacies, mutual borrowings and references, imperial and post-imperial political practices and translatability of concepts. It sought to refute the stereotypes about inclinations towards democracy in particular national contexts by tracing relevant transnational practices and interactions and providing a nuanced political and intellectual history of parliamentarism.
- Principal Investigator
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- PhD Candidate
- PhD Candidate
- PhD Candidate
Jule Isbrandt
Martina Langhals
Paula Simon
- University of Pennsylvania
- Saint Petersburg State University
- University of Tartu
Dr. Olha Holovina
- Dnipro State University of Internal Affairs
Amgalan Zhamsoev
Lubomir Rachev, MA
Books
- Sablin, Ivan. Parliaments in the Late Russian Empire, Revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet Union. London: Routledge, 2024.
- Sablin, Ivan, and Moniz Bandeira, Egas (eds.). Parties as Governments in Eurasia, 1913–1991: Nationalism, Socialism, and Development. London: Routledge, 2022.
- Sablin, Ivan, and Moniz Bandeira, Egas (eds.). Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850–1950: Concepts, Practices, and Mythologies. London: Routledge, 2021.
Journal Special Issues
- Parliaments, Estates and Representation, vol. 42, no. 1, 2022 (Special Issue: Parliaments, Elections and Constitutions in Qing and Russian Imperial Transformations, 1860s–1920s, ed. by Ivan Sablin and Egas Moniz Bandeira).
- Journal of Eurasian Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, 2020 (Special Issue: Parliamentary Formations and Diversities in (Post-)Imperial Eurasia, ed. by Ivan Sablin).
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Sablin, Ivan. The European Union in the Russian State Duma Debates, 1994–2004, Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino / Contributions to Contemporary History, vol. 63, no. 2 (special issue Eastern Enlargement, or an All-European Transformation? The 1990s in European Politics, ed. by Adela Gjuričová and Jure Gašparič), 2023, pp. 78–99.
- Sablin, Ivan. The Democratic Conference and the Pre-Parliament in Russia, 1917: Class, Nationality, and the Building of a Postimperial Community, Nationalities Papers, vol. 51, no. 2, 2023, pp. 446–468.
- Sablin, Ivan. An imperial community: Difference and inclusionary approaches to Russianness in the State Duma, 1906–1907, European Review of History, vol. 29, no. 5, 2022, pp. 819–843.
- Sablin, Ivan. A Spiritual Perestroika: Religion in the Late Soviet Parliaments, 1989–1991, Entangled Religions, vol. 13, no. 8, 2022.
- Sablin, Ivan. The State Conference in Moscow, 1917: Class, nationality, and the building of a post-imperial community, Parliaments, Estates and Representation, vol. 42, no. 1, 2022, pp. 38–59.
- Sablin, Ivan. Poslankyně neruského původu v sovětském parlamentu, 1989–1991: Intersekcionalita v imperiální situaci, Soudobé dějiny, vol. 28, no. 1, 2021, pp. 44–69.
- Penter, Tanja, and Sablin, Ivan. Soviet federalism from below: The Soviet Republics of Odessa and the Russian Far East, 1917–1918, Journal of Eurasian Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, 2020, pp. 40–52.
- Sablin, Ivan. Parliaments and Parliamentarism in the Works of Soviet Dissidents, 1960s–80s, Parliaments, Estates and Representation, 2019, vol. 40, no. 1, 2020, pp. 78–96.
Book Chapters
- Lee, Kyonghee. The dawn before one-party dominance: South Korea’s road to party politics under the Supreme Council for National Reconstruction, 1961–1963, in: Parties as Governments in Eurasia, 1913–1991: Nationalism, Socialism, and Development, ed. by Ivan Sablin and Egas Moniz Bandeira. London: Routledge, 2022, pp. 270–295.
- Sablin, Ivan. Constitution-making in the informal Soviet empire in Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Inner Asia, 1945–1955, in: Parties as Governments in Eurasia, 1913–1991: Nationalism, Socialism, and Development, ed. by Ivan Sablin and Egas Moniz Bandeira. London: Routledge, 2022, pp. 178–222.
- Sablin, Ivan, and Moniz Bandeira, Egas. Introduction: Parties from Vanguards to Governments, in: Parties as Governments in Eurasia, 1913–1991: Nationalism, Socialism, and Development, ed. by Ivan Sablin and Egas Moniz Bandeira. London: Routledge, 2022, pp. 1–25.
- Sablin, Ivan, and Kukushkin, Kuzma. The assembly of the land (zemskii sobor): Historiographies and mythologies of a Russian “parliament,” in: Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850–1950: Concepts, Practices, and Mythologies, ed. by Ivan Sablin and Egas Moniz Bandeira. London: Routledge, 2021, pp. 103–149.
- Sablin, Ivan; Moniz Bandeira, Egas; Badagarov, Jargal; Dorn, Martin, and Sodnomova, Irina. Duma, yuan, and beyond: Conceptualizing parliaments and parliamentarism in and after the Russian and Qing Empires, in: Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850–1950: Concepts, Practices, and Mythologies, ed. by Ivan Sablin and Egas Moniz Bandeira. London: Routledge, 2021, pp. 13–52.
- Sablin, Ivan, and Moniz Bandeira, Egas. Introduction, in: Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850–1950: Concepts, Practices, and Mythologies, ed. by Ivan Sablin and Egas Moniz Bandeira. London: Routledge, 2021, pp. 1–12.
- Sablin, Ivan; Badagarov, Jargal, and Sodnomova, Irina. Khural democracy: Imperial transformations and the making of the first Mongolian constitution, 1911–1924, in: Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia: Nation, Identity, and Culture, ed. by Simon Wickhamsmith and Phillip P. Marzluf. London: Routledge, 2021, pp. 14–42.
- Sablin, Ivan. Russia in the Global Parliamentary Moment, 1905–1918: Between a Subaltern Empire and an Empire of Subalterns, in: 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.
