Dr Ivan Sablin

• ivan.sablin@inz.si
• Research Associate
• SICRIS

Ivan Sablin partially substitutes for the Chair of Eastern European History and coordinates the Ladenburg Research Network “The Aggressor: Self-Perception and External Perception of an Actor Between Nations” in the Department of History at Heidelberg University, Germany. He also works as a research fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he heads the Slovenian Research Agency (ARIS) ERC Perspective Project “Socialist Management in a Global Context: Technocratic Developments in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, 1955–1991.” In 2018–2023, he led the Research Group “Entangled Parliamentarisms: Constitutional Practices in Russia, Ukraine, China and Mongolia, 1905–2005,” sponsored by the European Research Council (ERC), at Heidelberg University. His research interests include the history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, with special attention to Siberia and the Russian Far East, and global intellectual history. He is the author of three monographs – Parliaments in the Late Russian Empire, Revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet Union (London: Routledge, 2024), The Rise and Fall of Russia’s Far Eastern Republic, 1905–1922 (London: Routledge, 2018), and Governing Post-Imperial Siberia and Mongolia, 1911–1924 (London: Routledge, 2016) – and research articles in Slavic Review, Europe-Asia Studies, Nationalities Papers, and other journals. Ivan Sablin also co-edited Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850–1950: Concepts, Practices, and Mythologies (London: Routledge, 2021) and Parties as Governments in Eurasia, 1913–1991: Nationalism, Socialism, and Development (London: Routledge, 2022).

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