A group for those interested in Soviet and contemporary Russian history and culture.
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Peter Paccione deposited The French constitution of 1958 and the Russian constitution of 1993: a comparison in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week ago
In December 1993, the Russian Federation adopted a new constitution. This was seen by many in the West as a development that would lead to a new, democratic, law-based political order in Russia. Instead, it resulted in the establishment of the dictatorship of Vladimir Putin. I will attempt to explain some of the reasons I believe this happened. I…[Read more]
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Elisa Kriza deposited Wer ist hier der Feind? Verbündete und Gegner in Alexander Solschenizyns Darstellung von Deutschland in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago
The prominent Russian writer and Nobel Prize Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) was known mainly for his work on the Soviet prison camps. In many of his fictional and non-fiction works, however, Solzhenitsyn dealt with the subject of Germany. This article analyses Solzhenitsyn’s depiction of Germany in the works August 1914, The Gulag A…[Read more]
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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 on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago
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]
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Ivan Sablin deposited A Spiritual Perestroika: Religion in the Late Soviet Parliaments, 1989–1991 in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago
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]
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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 on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
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]
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Ivan Sablin deposited Introduction: Parties from Vanguards to Governments in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
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]
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Ivan Sablin deposited Parties as Governments in Eurasia, 1913–1991: Nationalism, Socialism, and Development in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
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]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Russland kann diesen Krieg nur verlieren in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
Seit fast vier Monaten herrscht Krieg in der Ukraine. Ein Blick in die Geschichte zeigt, warum Putin glaubt, dem Land die Eigenstaatlichkeit absprechen zu können – und weshalb sein Vorhaben nur scheitern kann.
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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 on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
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]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Seven Truths of Russian Neo-imperialism: Unceasing Expansion in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Putin’s Russia suffered a bitter defeat in the first weeks of the Russian-Ukrainian war. However, the Kremlin will keep on trying to place Ukraine into its orbit, as well as project its influence further into the Western world. Unceasing and dynamic aggrandizement under strong leadership is one of the most functional approaches to statecraft in R…[Read more]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Russia’s neo-imperial powerplay in Ukraine: The factors of identity and interests in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
Russian military aggression and diplomatic pressure against Ukraine stems from the neo-imperial thinking of Russian elites and ordinary citizens. This thinking requires reproduction of expansionist patterns that once led Russia to its “historical greatness”: construction of a territorially large state, rich in resources and demographically div…[Read more]
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Susan Smith-Peter deposited “The Six Waves of Russian Regionalism in European Context, 1830-2000” in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
There were six waves of regionalism in Western Europe and Russia: in the decades of the 1830s, the 1860s, the 1890s, the 1920s, the 1970s and the 1990s. Russian regions were not behind Western European ones but rather went through the same stages of development at the same time or sometimes even earlier, until after the Stalin era, when they did…[Read more]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited The great dichotomy: How experiences of history and transcendence explain Ukraine’s political life in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
The article uses Eric Voegelin’s ontology to address domestic processes in contemporary Ukraine. It explains how interpretations of experiences of history and transcendence evoke political order and justice. It also outlines the nature of political symbols deriving from these experiences. The article argues that Ukraine’s social architecture is…[Read more]
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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 on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
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]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited The Intermarium As a Pivotal Geopolitical Buzzword in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
This article focuses on historical and contemporary connotations of the Intermarium concept-Ukrainian and Polish academic and political thought on how to organize and govern the space between the Baltic and Black seas-employing the ideas of Józef Piłsudski, Józef Beck, Michał Czajkowski (Mykhailo Chaikovs’kyi), Mykhailo Drahomanov, members of the…[Read more]
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Ignacio Cabello Llano deposited Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn y la resistencia al totalitarismo in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 2 years ago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), importante escritor y disidente soviético, a través de su experiencia vital y de su producción literaria, no sólo describe y denuncia la barbarie totalitaria de los campos de concentración soviéticos, sino que, por encima de todo ello, testimonia cómo es posible no sucumbir ante la “putrefacción del alma y es…[Read more]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Meandering in Transition in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
The chapter opens the “Meandering in Transition” collection. It presents contributors and outlines reasons why some of the Central and Eastern European states accomplished a decisive break with the Communist past and became members of European and transatlantic structures, while some opted for pseudo-transition and fostered hybrid political…[Read more]
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Ivan Sablin deposited Poslankyně neruského původu v sovětském parlamentu, 1989–1991: Intersekcionalita v imperiální situaci in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
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]
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Ivan Sablin deposited Introduction in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
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]
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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 on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
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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