Parliaments in the Late Russian Empire, Revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet Union

ISBN-13: 9781032556864 / Twarda / 2024 / 536 str.

Ivan (National Research University Higher School of Economic

Opis

This book examines the meanings that were attached to the terms “parliament” and “parliamentarism” in different historical and discursive contexts of the late Russian Empire, revolutionary and Soviet Russia, and the Soviet Union.

Spis treści

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Note on the Text

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction

Chapter 1: Representation of the people: The making of the State Duma, 1905–1907

Chapter 2: Legislative chambers: The State Duma and the State Council, 1907–1917

Chapter 3: A parliamentary revolution: Postimperial assemblies, 1917–1918

Chapter 4: An antiparliamentary revolution: The RSFSR Congress of Soviets and the Central Executive Committee, 1918–1922

Chapter 5: An alternative to parliament: The USSR Congress of Soviets and the Central Executive Committee, 1923–1934

Chapter 6: A socialist parliament: The making of the Supreme Soviet and its functions, 1935–1954

Chapter 7: The supreme body of state power: The Supreme Soviet normalized and contested, 1955–1985

Chapter 8: Soviet parliamentarism: The Supreme Soviet and the Congress of People’s Deputies, 1985–1991

Conclusion

 

Index

O autorze

Ivan Sablin is a research project coordinator in the Department of History at Heidelberg University, Germany, and research fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia.