HASTAC Commons | Roman Ivashkiv | Group Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/roman904/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Roman Ivashkiv is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:14:26 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 da75e6ae6056ff29d7f8d732af7e80ba Susan Smith-Peter deposited "The Six Waves of Russian Regionalism in European Context, 1830-2000" in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766308/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 02:23:38 +0000 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 9ca57bf65b451f7abbbef0eaa7d7e77d Ivan Sablin deposited Poslankyně neruského původu v sovětském parlamentu, 1989–1991: Intersekcionalita v imperiální situaci in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1739127/ Sun, 23 May 2021 02:23:40 +0000 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 461ba7c70648f596cf341a4cdeaf1e34 Natalya Khokholova deposited Gossiping and Ageing Princesses in Odoevsky’s Societal Tales in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1736349/ Tue, 27 Apr 2021 03:45:27 +0000 Abstract
There have been numerous and extensive discussions of the role of ‘слухи’ [gossip] in
nineteenth-century Russian literature; usually gossip was viewed as a formative force be-
hind plot dynamics, and as the launching point for grotesque narrative effects. This article
attempts to frame different perceptions of gossip, treating…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ae46990f87c1a35325362d6d467064b Ivan Sablin deposited Duma, yuan, and beyond: Conceptualizing parliaments and parliamentarism in and after the Russian and Qing Empires in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1733714/ Sat, 03 Apr 2021 02:30:24 +0000 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 206e34e0aa078443eda41b7e2b25d9de Ivan Sablin deposited The assembly of the land (zemskii sobor): Historiographies and mythologies of a Russian “parliament” in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1733712/ Sat, 03 Apr 2021 02:30:09 +0000 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 26dbe489227bebd64a2a54294301de22 Ivan Sablin deposited Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850–1950: Concepts, Practices, and Mythologies in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1733709/ Sat, 03 Apr 2021 02:29:54 +0000 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 9743d1ee8d4dc8a7ef079a502ce37a2f Ivan Sablin deposited Khural democracy: Imperial transformations and the making of the first Mongolian constitution, 1911–1924 in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1722911/ Wed, 13 Jan 2021 02:23:40 +0000 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 38c9b3d72a79e38022ef0e6067c60caf 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 ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1721785/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 02:25:52 +0000 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 8db6e523e931860b778ad74e518bf05f 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 ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1710638/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 02:24:02 +0000 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 d2ad26b59bad65645feef2a73c9197c9 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 ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1710635/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 02:23:46 +0000 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 9d04eeabf3d9e3298c80e68d4295f974 Ivan Sablin deposited Soviet federalism from below: The Soviet Republics of Odessa and the Russian Far East, 1917–1918 in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1680636/ Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:26:27 +0000 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 3a700b31c3346081b8bde16676687f5d Susan Smith-Peter deposited Is Science Enough?: The Limits of Scientific Agriculture in Nineteenth-Century Russia within a Global Market in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1661227/ Sat, 24 Aug 2019 16:25:49 +0000 The article argues that the spread of scientific information is not always enough to ensure the success of the production of any particular country in a global market. In particular, there were significant barriers to the introduction of improved livestock raising in nineteenth century Russia. Although agricultural societies, which were voluntary…[Read more]

]]> 0 56612b037a1a265b734ef0af805465d0 Susan Smith-Peter deposited Pre-Revolutionary Russian Photography at the New York Public Library: An Introduction in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1661226/ Sat, 24 Aug 2019 16:25:37 +0000 This article is an introduction to the New York Public Library’s pre-revolutionary Russian and Eastern European photographic albums. It also provides a checklist of these albums. The checklist is an especially rich source for Russian architecture, art, and science and provides documentation for a variety of places in the center and provinces of t…[Read more]

]]> 0 1584f005f2c5e2f578ca2f0a424d0d3a Susan Smith-Peter deposited Communism and Regionalism in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1661224/ Sat, 24 Aug 2019 16:25:23 +0000 This article traces the attempts by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries to devolve economic powers to the regions and the ultimate failure of this project, which was a contributing factor to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

]]> 0 bfdcb276d66892f9faf81ceb9ef60edd Ivan Sablin deposited Parliaments and parliamentarism in the works of Soviet dissidents, 1960s–80s in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1641633/ Tue, 04 Jun 2019 16:26:52 +0000 Drawing from samizdat (self-published) and tamizdat (foreign-published) materials, this article traces the understandings of parliaments and parliamentarism in individual works by Soviet dissidents and reconstructs the authors’ underlying assumptions in the application of the two ideas. It focuses on the articulations and the implications of f…[Read more]

]]> 0 385b80f6e8848ae62171dfc175856c46 Lynda Park started the topic Proposals for 2018 ASEEES Convention Boston due Feb. 28 in the discussion 2017 ASEEES Convention Chicago https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/2017-aseees-convention-chicago/forum/topic/proposals-for-2018-aseees-convention-boston-due-feb-28-2/ Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:20:01 +0000 The Proposals for the 2018 ASEEES Convention are due 11:59pm PT on Feb. 28, 2018. Please contact aseees.convention@pitt.edu if you have any questions.

http://www.aseees.org/convention/cfp

 

]]> 0 32668af4e781424757051604c51fe7a7 Mary Arnstein deposited 2017 ASEEES 49th Annual Convention Program in the group 2017 ASEEES Convention Chicago https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1598160/ Tue, 23 Jan 2018 03:45:28 +0000 This is the convention program for the 49th Annual ASEEES Convention, held Nov 9-12, 2017 in Chicago, IL.

]]> 0 5008561de670eeab3f6e62d8e2979fa2 Mischa Gabowitsch deposited Russia's Arlington? The Federal Military Memorial Cemetery near Moscow in the group 2017 ASEEES Convention Chicago https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1588944/ Sat, 18 Nov 2017 01:00:04 +0000 Opened in 2013, the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery near Moscow is Russia’s new national cemetery. Providing for the interment of political as well as military leaders, it is to supplant the Kremlin Wall as the country’s prime burial site. Initially modeled after the Arlington National Cemetery and designed as a landscaped park, the site was…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6df229c2d3a670f115583c41b6086f9 Nicky Agate posted an update in the group ASEEES Convention: Hello! If you're curious about how to use the Commons to […] https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1586813/ Mon, 06 Nov 2017 16:16:52 +0000 Hello! If you’re curious about how to use the Commons to share your scholarship, build a professional web site (or a class blog), and connect with other scholars, come talk to me at Booth 105 in the Exhibit Hall this weekend. Send your colleagues along too—I’d be delighted to help people get set up on both ASEEES Commons and the i…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff0110b45ca0b554b4bc48ad756e5c5c Ivan Sablin deposited A History for the Centenary of the Russian Revolution (Review of Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 by S. A. Smith) in the group 2017 ASEEES Convention Chicago https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1585743/ Thu, 26 Oct 2017 01:00:04 +0000 This review essay focuses on the new monograph by S. A. Smith Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017). As a leading expert in the social history of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Smith provides a comprehensive political, social, and cultural narrative of one of the central events in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 abda76591c19350dde0763c22b6d5b10 Ivan Sablin deposited Nationalist mobilization in the Russian Far East during the closing phase of the Civil War in the group 2017 ASEEES Convention Chicago https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1585742/ Thu, 26 Oct 2017 01:00:02 +0000 Three major factions in the Russian Civil War in the Far East engaged in nationalist mobilization coming up with different rhetorical tropes and images in the 1920-1922 period. The ultra-royalist faction led by Mikhail Konstantinovich Diterikhs, which in 1922 controlled the Provisional Priamur Government in Vladivostok, portrayed the Romanovs as…[Read more]

]]> 0 2a0c61a274340c988a4d12af010007f8 amcmaster started the topic MAG Offering Travel Grants for 2017 Convention in the discussion 2017 ASEEES Convention Chicago https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/2017-aseees-convention-chicago/forum/topic/mag-offering-travel-grants-for-2017-convention/ Thu, 20 Jul 2017 21:44:39 +0000 MAG offering travel grants to ASEEES Chicago for Ukrainian and Belusian Presenters,

***Deadline is July 25th***

The International Association for Humanities (MAG) offers four travel grants for participation in the 49th Annual Convention of Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) which will be held in Chicago (USA) on…[Read more]

]]> 0 65c5427d64a08b52b8be28797190c538 Lynda Park posted an update in the group ASEEES Convention: The PDF version of the #ASEEES17 convention preliminary […] https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1574892/ Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:26:06 +0000 The PDF version of the #ASEEES17 convention preliminary program can be found on the website. Please keep in mind that this is a static document as of June 15 only. Any changes after that are not reflected in the document. For the most up-to-date program, please check the online program. If you see any errors in titles and such, please send the…[Read more]

]]> 0 c124184fb7ce6ded2b94c392f4fae86c Lynda Park started the topic Preliminary Online Convention Program Available in the discussion 2017 ASEEES Convention Chicago https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/2017-aseees-convention-chicago/forum/topic/preliminary-online-convention-program-available/ Tue, 13 Jun 2017 21:42:51 +0000 The preliminary online program for the 2017 Chicago Convention is available: http://www.aseees.org/convention/program

A PDF version of the program will be posted shortly, but keep in mind that the PDF program will be a  static document.  For the most up-to-date program, please see the online program.

]]> 0 f8830f7fc8dd180a7d311bffbbd787eb Lynda Park started the topic ASEEES Convention Travel Grants - Apps due May 22 in the discussion 2017 ASEEES Convention Chicago https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/2017-aseees-convention-chicago/forum/topic/aseees-convention-travel-grants-apps-due-may-22/ Tue, 09 May 2017 21:21:05 +0000 ASEEES is offering four different travel grants for the 2017 Convention.  All applications are due by May 22.  Please review the grant site for more info: http://www.aseees.org/convention/grants

]]> 0 678ca59f34ce3265ff3b6c339628d441 Lynda Park started the topic Acceptance Notification Out, Convention Registration Open in the discussion 2017 ASEEES Convention Chicago https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/2017-aseees-convention-chicago/forum/topic/acceptance-notification-out-convention-registration-open/ Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:32:41 +0000 The 2017 Convention proposal acceptance/rejection notification were sent out on 4/14.  The convention registration is now open.  http://www.aseees.org/convention/registration

]]> 0 a1edf86ea15e2bfd8514c9e97660a26c Lynda Park started the topic Welcome! in the discussion 2017 ASEEES Convention Chicago https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/2017-aseees-convention-chicago/forum/topic/welcome-2/ Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:55:19 +0000 This is a public group for the 2017 ASEEES Convention participants to discuss their session topics and convention logistics and find replacement participants when you have a member withdraw from your session.

]]> 0 569509e7512c1d9452f6ae1343e603aa Lynda Park created the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1566542/ Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:53:41 +0000 0