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oapen-20.500.12657-875232024-03-28T14:03:14Z Parliaments in the Late Russian Empire, Revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet Union Sablin, Ivan Parliaments Russian Empire Russia Soviet Union Russian Revolution thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGL Regional geography thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history 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 functions, and traces the broader debates on parliamentarism within Russia and the Soviet Union, in Russian émigré circles, and among foreign observers. It highlights that only the late imperial and perestroika assemblies can be considered legislative institutions that expressed dissensus but argues that other assemblies, often referred to as “rubber-stamp” parliaments due to their lack of legislative competence and influence over other authorities, should not be dismissed. The Supreme Soviet, for instance, provided an integrative function binding society and elites in a top-down manner, while its deputies engaged in information acquisition and state micromanagement through interactions with their constituents. It also played an important role in interparliamentary relations and, as one of the first institutions of nominal parliamentarism in an autocratic single-party regime, of which there were many in the twentieth century, served as a model for numerous state socialist regimes. By addressing the role of parliaments in reassembling imperial spaces through political representation and the functions of nominal legislative institutions, the book explores the contribution of Russian and Soviet assemblies to global political modernity. 2024-02-06T08:59:23Z 2024-02-06T08:59:23Z 2024 book ONIX_20240206_9781040004319_2 9781040004319 9781040004418 9781003431794 9781032556864 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87523 eng Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe application/pdf n/a 9781040004319.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003431794 10.4324/9781003431794 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb a88f7f15-e6f4-4051-8cdf-5a18b056d678 9781040004319 9781040004418 9781003431794 9781032556864 Routledge 474 Oxford [...] European Research Council ERC open access
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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 functions, and traces the broader debates on parliamentarism within Russia and the Soviet Union, in Russian émigré circles, and among foreign observers. It highlights that only the late imperial and perestroika assemblies can be considered legislative institutions that expressed dissensus but argues that other assemblies, often referred to as “rubber-stamp” parliaments due to their lack of legislative competence and influence over other authorities, should not be dismissed. The Supreme Soviet, for instance, provided an integrative function binding society and elites in a top-down manner, while its deputies engaged in information acquisition and state micromanagement through interactions with their constituents. It also played an important role in interparliamentary relations and, as one of the first institutions of nominal parliamentarism in an autocratic single-party regime, of which there were many in the twentieth century, served as a model for numerous state socialist regimes. By addressing the role of parliaments in reassembling imperial spaces through political representation and the functions of nominal legislative institutions, the book explores the contribution of Russian and Soviet assemblies to global political modernity.
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