Dr Ivan Sablin; Visiting Fellowship 2022/23
Biography
I lead 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 (Germany). My research interests include history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, with special attention to Siberia and the Russian Far East, histories of parliaments, empires, and diversity, and global intellectual history. I wrote two monographs – Governing Post-Imperial Siberia and Mongolia, 1911–1924 (London: Routledge, 2016) and The Rise and Fall of Russia’s Far Eastern Republic, 1905–1922 (London: Routledge, 2018). Currently, I work on a monograph devoted to conceptual and institutional history of parliaments in Russia and the Soviet Union between 1905 and 1955. I am also interested in digital humanities, especially historical GIS (geographic information systems).
Visiting Fellowship, November 2022–March 2023
Within the framework of the Research Project “Entangled Parliamentarisms: Constitutional Practices in Russia, Ukraine, China and Mongolia, 1905–2005,” I cooperated with Dr. Jure Gašparič, who contributed a chapter to the volume Parties as Governments in Eurasia, 1913–1991: Nationalism, Socialism, and Development, and Tjaša Konovšek, who participated in one of our conferences. I also participated in three events organized by the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, including a panel which was organized by Dr. Ana Kladnik. During my stay I want to continue the cooperation with the researchers of the Institute and broaden the scope of my current research of parliaments and constitutions under state socialism. Working together with Dr. Gašparič and Dr. Adéla Gjuričová (Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences), we will compare concepts pertaining to parliaments and parliamentary institutions in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and the USSR between the 1960s and 1991. In terms of possible long-term cooperation with the researchers of the Institute, I would like to continue engaging with comparative studies of parliamentarism, federalism, and other concepts under state socialism in a global context. During my stay in Ljubljana, I want to do some preliminary archival and library research on Yugoslavia and learn Slovene. I am also keen to extend my digital-humanities skill set by learning techniques of text mining.
Relevant Publications
- 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.
- 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. The Democratic Conference and the Pre-Parliament in Russia, 1917: Class, Nationality, and the Building of a Postimperial Community, Nationalities Papers, 2021.
- Sablin, Ivan. Poslankyně neruského původu v sovětském parlamentu, 1989–1991: Intersekcionalita v imperiální situaci, Soudobé dějiny, vol. 28, no. 1, 2021, pp. 44–69.
- Sablin, Ivan. Parliaments and Parliamentarism in the Works of Soviet Dissidents, 1960s–80s, Parliaments, Estates and Representation, vol. 40, no. 1, 2020, pp. 78–96.
