Knowledge Commons | John Randolph | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/jwr12/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which John Randolph is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:54 -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 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 64e98a5f575a3c398f518db35555c893 Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Manuscripts Don't Burn in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859638/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:05:07 -0400 In 2023, a new museum opened in Tbilisi, at the Writer's House of Georgia that previously house the Soviet Writers' Union: The Museum of Repressed Writers. The museum honours the executed poets from Georgia’s Soviet past, poets whose identities Soviet authorities tried to destroy. This article examines the story the museum tells about Soviet l…[Read more]

]]> 0 9547ca1591f5a2ed9932ca7051ea8463 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1821418/ Fri, 11 Nov 2022 02:25:38 -0500 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]

]]> 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 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 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 19410b24bfe90e9741df2a010ae473cb Ostap Kushnir deposited Russland kann diesen Krieg nur verlieren in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783726/ Fri, 10 Jun 2022 02:24:06 -0400 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.

]]> 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 e633d22535a1fea455b593141ed95d36 Ostap Kushnir deposited Seven Truths of Russian Neo-imperialism: Unceasing Expansion in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1774559/ Sun, 13 Mar 2022 03:23:57 -0400 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]

]]> 0 fc5a0ac37489112d20a84cb739d11cd3 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1770392/ Fri, 04 Feb 2022 02:25:39 -0500 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]

]]> 0 990f684c7189ced2f46ea64bde737b4d Susan Smith-Peter deposited "The Six Waves of Russian Regionalism in European Context, 1830-2000" in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1766311/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 02:24:13 -0500 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]

]]> 0 942e01110627df14bd3631c7d297343f 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764605/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 02:26:28 -0500 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]

]]> 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 2e8c312d32c286fcd2cb5663ebbc0723 Ostap Kushnir deposited The Intermarium As a Pivotal Geopolitical Buzzword in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1755988/ Wed, 20 Oct 2021 02:24:10 -0400 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]

]]> 0 e327861de50471245a650cc266c2b06c Ignacio Cabello Llano deposited Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn y la resistencia al totalitarismo in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1751598/ Sat, 11 Sep 2021 02:24:29 -0400 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]

]]> 0 9bf80a3d12a58f3381e87e80bf7a69ae Ostap Kushnir deposited Meandering in Transition in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749164/ Fri, 13 Aug 2021 02:24:52 -0400 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]

]]> 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 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 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 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 3e275cb2db6c32fac07b26aba08c1f12 Vladimir Kozlov deposited Парадоксы этнического выживания (1944—начало 1960-х гг. Сталинская ссылка и репатриация чеченцев и ингушей после Второй мировой войны. in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1730478/ Mon, 08 Mar 2021 02:23:38 -0500 The book is dedicated to the paradoxical era of the relationship between the Vainakhs and the Soviet state. The study opens with a description of the utopian attempts of the communist government to realize the old imperial dream: to evict the "restless" Chechens and Ingush outside the North Caucasus, to populate the liberated territories with…[Read more]

]]> 0 d4f85565c885a18adfdaeafc77b9b3d8 Vladimir Kozlov deposited «Где Гитлер?". Повторное расследование НКВД (МВД) СССР обстоятельств исчезновения Адольфа Гитлера (1945-1949)». М.: РОССПЭН, 2016 in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1727782/ Wed, 17 Feb 2021 02:25:57 -0500 This book is about an unusual police investigation, in which a certain suicide, found in the bunker of the Imperial Chancellery, as it should be before the establishment of the truth, was called "victim". This is a story about the work of Stalin's special services in Germany, about palace intrigues and the hopes of people who imagined at the end…[Read more]

]]> 0 de0f9a9c20f808005eb79780726628d2 Natascha Drubek deposited Filme über Vernichtung und Befreiung. Die Rhetorik der Filmdokumente aus Majdanek 1944-1945 in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1725781/ Mon, 01 Feb 2021 02:24:19 -0500 In July 1944, the Red Army was advancing through Eastern Poland when they discovered the first traces of the camps. On reaching Lublin they found an enormous compound behind barbed wire in the city’s suburb of Majdanek. Embedded with the Soviet army were film crews, who made the first images of a Nazi camp, among them the "flight survivors" Olga a…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca8b1bcc4c78c1befc03f30aee14a422 Ostap Kushnir deposited Business, Values, and EU’s Response to Protests in Ukraine: Cases from 2003–2004, 2010, and 2013–2014 in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1725622/ Sun, 31 Jan 2021 02:23:42 -0500 This book aims to uncover and assess changes in the EU's foreign policy towards Ukraine in the times of wide-scale social protests in Kyiv. To accomplish this task, this book enlists and analyses documents, agreements, and treaties which establish the frameworks for EU-Ukraine cooperation. It also identifies the interests of lobbying groups in…[Read more]

]]> 0 b63c85b6087e8a6a62f29c4bfa5181f9 Anne Eakin Moss deposited The Camera Shot and the Gun Sight in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1723729/ Tue, 19 Jan 2021 02:23:46 -0500 This article examines the link posited by Virilio and others between the camera shot and gun shot, arguing that this link operates differently in the context of Soviet vs. Western fantasies of agency, community and technology. Comparing THE LOST PATROL (USA 1934, John Ford) with TRINADTSAT (THIRTEEN, UdSSR 1936, Mikhail Romm), it asks what kind of…[Read more]

]]> 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 5d47bbe8fce4c5b2cd3d4016b5f40ecc Susan Smith-Peter deposited The Struggle to Create a Regional Public in the Early Nineteenth-Century Russian Empire: the Case of Kazanskie izvestiia in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721786/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 02:26:05 -0500 In the early part of the reign of Alexander I (1801-1825), the emperor sought to reform Russia through the creation of new European-style institutions. The aim was to ensure that Russia’s great-power status would be retained through updating its institutions, in line with a reform impulse dating back to Peter the Great and before. Among the new i…[Read more]

]]> 0 61e788cc6b34d859adbe056a4da6d350 Vladimir Kozlov deposited Жилище как трофей: квартирный вопрос в бюрократических практиках и личных стратегиях сотрудников Советской военной администрации в Германии (1945–1949) in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1718131/ Fri, 27 Nov 2020 02:23:45 -0500 Housing as a trophy: the housing issue in bureaucratic practices and personal strategies of the Soviet military administration in Germany (1945-1949)

]]> 0 3626b92d3e594b8360f378882f0aad45 Ostap Kushnir deposited Ukraine’s “learning” revolutions of 1990, 2004/05 and 2013/14 in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1717617/ Fri, 20 Nov 2020 02:23:58 -0500 Collected volume review. Paweł Kowal, Georges Mink and Iwona Reichardt (eds.) "Three Revolutions: Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine." Volume one. Stuttgart, Ibidem Verlag, 2019.

]]> 0 e56984d03acd8507d93ec971d0105185 Vladimir Kozlov deposited На излете позднего сталинизма: культ бдительности и ритуалы секретности (по материалам Советской военной администрации в Германии, 1945-1949) in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1717614/ Fri, 20 Nov 2020 02:23:38 -0500 At the end of late Stalinism: the cult of vigilance and secrecy rituals (based on the materials of the Soviet military administration in Germany, 1945-1949)

]]> 0 7a5aa19cd3323a82de10bf14a75ec05a Vladimir Kozlov deposited Советские потребительские практики в "маленьком СССР", 1945-1949 (по материалам Советской военной администрации в Германии) in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1716473/ Sat, 14 Nov 2020 02:23:42 -0500 Soviet consumer practices in the "small USSR", 1945-1949 (based on the materials of the Soviet military administration in Germany)

]]> 0 5c58ea26d825b9cce7222a71d80ecc66 Vladimir Kozlov deposited Поздний сталинизм как идеологическая практика. Партийная жизнь советских коммунистов в оккупированной Германии. 1945—1949 гг.] // Исследования по истории русской мысли. Ежегодник 2018 [14]. Под ред. М. А. Колерова. Модест Колеров. М., 2018 in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1716472/ Sat, 14 Nov 2020 02:23:39 -0500 Late Stalinism as an Ideological Practice. Party Life of Soviet Communists in Occupied Germany. 1945-1949 /

]]> 0 7d86463a58c8548a0285e707f2b4a480 Vladimir Kozlov deposited «Бесчинства» как управленческий концепт. К пониманию военно-бюрократической культуры советского оккупационного режима в Германии (1945–1949 гг.) // Русский сборник. Исследования по истории России. Т. XIV. М., 2013. С. 414-472 in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1716382/ Fri, 13 Nov 2020 02:23:38 -0500 "Outrages" as a management concept.
Understanding the military-bureaucratic culture of the Soviet occupation regime in Germany (1945-1949)

]]> 0 6ed241b2f4f84a6d40b34d6edbc248c3 Ostap Kushnir deposited Ukraine and Russian Neo-Imperialism: The Divergent Break in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1714778/ Wed, 28 Oct 2020 02:24:18 -0400 This book first proves that the rationale behind Russia's aggressive actions in its neighborhood resides in its goal of achieving certain geostrategic objectives which are largely predefined by the state's imperial traditions, memories, and fears that the Kremlin may irretrievably lose control over lands which were once Russian. In other words,…[Read more]

]]> 0 e16bbc5155d3d906915ab9a225a6dbca Ostap Kushnir deposited The Intermarium as the Polish-Ukrainian Linchpin of Baltic-Black Sea Cooperation in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1714775/ Wed, 28 Oct 2020 02:24:02 -0400 The term “Intermarium” has a long historical tradition and was commonly used to define the area between the Baltic and Black Seas. With its regular re-appearances in contemporary academic and political discourses, this book explores and assesses a variety of its connotations. In order to do this, it applies a multi-dimensional approach to the Int…[Read more]

]]> 0 e9762132c4f2d2ec4cc6000f5b8574ff Christopher Joseph Helali deposited No Pasaran! An Interview on the History and Politics of Anti-fascism with Mark Bray in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1711898/ Tue, 13 Oct 2020 02:23:56 -0400 Mark Bray is a historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in Modern Europe as well as a political organizer. This interview outlines what fascism is, the history of anti-fascist resistance, the debate surrounding free-speech, anti-imperialism, World War II, and the Trump Era.

Mark Bray is a political organizer and historian…[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 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 3680dddc15447327b0a547fcdb980ae5 Vladimir Kozlov deposited Sedition. Everyday Resistance in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and Brezhnev in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696187/ Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:27:40 -0400 Sedition Everyday Resistance in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and Brezhnev Edited by Vladimir A. Kozlov, Sheila Fitzpatrick, and Sergei V. Mironenko Compiled by V. A. Kozlov and O. V. Edelman with assistance from E. Yu. Zavadskaia English edition edited and introduced by Sheila Fitzpatrick Translated by Olga Livshin English edition annotated…[Read more]

]]> 0 6b5999ff1ba3c4f6cd4ee2e5c2a608a6 Natascha Drubek deposited Exegi Monumentum Revolutionis – On Eisenstein’s "October" in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1690503/ Wed, 10 Jun 2020 16:25:46 -0400 This essay discusses the cinematic representation of Revolution in Sergei Eisenstein’s film Oktiabr’ / October, a film which had a decisive impact on the revolutionary development of film history and theory. I will explore how Revolution can be re-enacted and shown in the medium of cinema, and how this medium is capable of not only staging his…[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 96a4271c52594017c58091d5089b8b4e Ostap Kushnir deposited Ukraine in the post-truth environment, or Future shocks of the global village in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1678254/ Wed, 12 Feb 2020 16:25:34 -0500 Alvin Toffler and Marshall McLuhan: both are futurologists who theorized about the impact of information exchange on societies. In the late 1960s, Toffler came up with the concept of future shock, while McLuhan “invented” the global village. I dared combining these two concepts into a sort of “theory of everything” to explain political process…[Read more]

]]> 0 db0034873b046dd58ef6e604b96f24e1 Ostap Kushnir deposited New dark times. A warning against the spread of Putinism in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676714/ Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:25:32 -0500 Book review. Kate Langdon & Vladimir Tismaneanu "Putin’s Totalitarian Democracy: Ideology, Myth, and Violence in the Twenty-First Century", Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

]]> 0 7f9c1898d8d93e1401bb9cf8381eff24 Ostap Kushnir deposited Lysiak Rudnytsky’s prescience: Ukraine’s political turbulence and trauma of a “non-historical” nation in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670767/ Fri, 22 Nov 2019 16:26:25 -0500 If we look at the past three decades in the history of Eastern Europe, Ukraine may safely be placed at the top of the chart of “unstable” states. First was the student-led Revolution on Granite in the 1990s. The outcome of that revolution was a resignation of entrenched high-ranked Soviet officials under the pressure of public opinion. Then, if…[Read more]

]]> 0 ecf70b75824ff7f05d4084f600f7084d Ostap Kushnir deposited Putin’s long awaited opportunity, retaliation and revenge in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1669274/ Mon, 04 Nov 2019 16:26:25 -0500 Book review. Taras Kuzio "Putin’s War against Ukraine: Revolution, nationalism and crime," CreateSpace Independent, in association with the Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto, 2017

]]> 0 1cc1386db3359fd3fccfffeb3743294a Ostap Kushnir deposited Between Survivability and Crime. The Nature of Informal Practices in post-Communist Societies in the group Soviet and Russian history and culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1669269/ Mon, 04 Nov 2019 16:26:09 -0500 Book review. Abel Polese. "Limits of a Post-Soviet State," Ibidem-Verlag, 2016. ISBN 978-3-8382-0845-9

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