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Ivan Sablin
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Historian of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union at Heidelberg University and the Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana
September 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
My book Parliaments in the Late Russian Empire, Revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet Union has just been released in paperback at an affordable price. The digital edition is available open access.
July 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
A concise yet remarkably insightful review of my book by Alexander Semyonov, whose work on the State Duma and the Russian Empire has deeply informed my research onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Parliaments in the Late Russian Empire, Revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet Union by Ivan Sablin. Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe. New York: Routledge, 2024. 474 pp. $176.00. ISBN 978‐1‐0325‐5686‐4
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May 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
A great review essay by Stephen Lovell discussing my book in a wider context is part of the latest issue of Kritika: muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...
Project MUSE - Eurasian Parliamentarism: What, Why, and Whither
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May 26, 2025 at 8:13 AM
My review of Katie L. Stewart’s Legitimating Nationalism: Political Identity in Russia’s Ethnic Republics is out now on H-Net Reviews www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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April 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Feeling honored! The book is in open access: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
April 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
If the eagles had intervened as depicted by Jean Bondol and Nicolas Bataille in their Apocalypse Tapestry (1377–1382) #skystorians #tolkien #art
March 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, invites paper proposals for the Workshop “Revolutionary Technocracy: The State and Mass Organizations in Socialist Governance since the 1950s,” to be held on June 17, 2025, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Revolutionary Technocracy
The Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, invites paper proposals for the Workshop “Revolutionary Technocracy: The State and Mass Organizations in Socialist Governance since the 1950s,” to be ...
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February 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
„Kein Schritt nach Rechts“ will am 15.2. unter dem Motto „Gemeinsam gegen Rechts“ ein Zeichen gegen den Rechtsruck in der Gesellschaft setzen keinschrittnachrechts.de/archive/1284
KSnR: Die Pressemitteilung zur Demo „Gemeinsam gegen Rechts“ am 15.02. – Kein Schritt nach rechts
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January 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Today, on January 29, 2025, the German Bundestag had a rightwing populist/extremist majority for the first time since 1945.
January 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The border has border crossed. CDU officially joins rightwing populists.
January 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Eil-Appell unterzeichnen: Keine Zusammenarbeit mit der AfD!
CDU-Chef Merz will mit Stimmen der AfD seine menschenfeindliche Politik vorantreiben – sag Nein zu diesem Tabubruch!

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Appell unterzeichnen: Keine Zusammenarbeit mit der AfD!
CDU-Chef Merz setzt auf die Stimmen der AfD, um seine Abschottungspolitik durchzusetzen – sag Nein zu diesem Tabubruch.
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January 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
More information on our new project “Socialist Management in a Global Context: Technocratic Developments in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, 1955–1991” at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana www.inz.si/en/technocra...
Socialist Management in a Global Context: Technocratic Developments in the Soviet Union and Yugoslav - Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino Slovenije
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January 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Reposted by Ivan Sablin
You are invited to submit paper proposals for the workshop "Revolutionary Technocracy: The State and Mass Organizations in Socialist Governance since the 1950s," which will take place on June 17, 2025, at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana.
More info at: www.inz.si/sl/Dogodki/R...
»Revolucionarna tehnokracija: država in množične organizacije v socialističnem upravljanju od 50. let dalje« - Dogodki in novice - Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino Slovenije
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January 20, 2025 at 7:47 AM
The Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, @inz-ljubljana.bsky.social invites paper proposals for the Workshop “Revolutionary Technocracy: The State and Mass Organizations in Socialist Governance since the 1950s,” to be held on June 17, 2025, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. www.inz.si/en/technocra...
Workshop “Revolutionary Technocracy: The State and Mass Organizations in Socialist Governance since the 1950s” - Socialist Management in a Global Context: Technocratic Developments in the Soviet Union...
www.inz.si
January 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana @inz-ljubljana.bsky.social sets a great example with its “right to disconnect” rule, encouraging work within normal hours and advising against sending emails to colleagues outside working hours, which I really value.
January 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Sieht aus, als müsste Merz einen Einbürgerungstest machen und das Grundgesetz lesen. Art 16. (1) Die deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit darf nicht entzogen werden.
January 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The Ladenburg Research Network “The Aggressor: Self-Perception and External Perception of an Actor Between Nations” invites submissions for the Workshop “The Aggressor in Museum” to take place at the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle in Thessaloniki on October 9–10, 2025.
Workshop “The Aggressor in Museum” - Heidelberg University
The Ladenburg Research Network “The Aggressor: Self-Perception and External Perception of an Actor Between Nations,” sponsored by the Daimler and Benz invites
www.uni-heidelberg.de
January 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Inlands with our chapter on Mongolia in the Soviet empire is out now: cup.columbia.edu/book/inlands...
January 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The Japanese translation of The Rise and Fall of Russia's Far Eastern Republic, 1905–1922: Nationalisms, Imperialisms, and Regionalisms in and after the Russian Empire is coming soon.
The Rise and Fall of Russia's Far Eastern Republic, 1905–1922: Nationalisms, Imperialisms, and Regionalisms in and after the Russian Empire
The Russian Far East was a remarkably fluid region in the period leading up to, during, and after the Russian Revolution. The different contenders in play in the region, imagining and working toward a...
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December 27, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Launching a new research project titled Socialist Management in a Global Context: Technocratic Developments in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, 1955–1991 at the @inz-ljubljana.bsky.social soon. More details, including those on workshops, will follow.
December 11, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Reposted by Ivan Sablin
Kyonghee Lee 李京憙 reconstructs a pivotal moment in the history of South Korea: The formation of political parties shortly after Park Chung-Hee came to power, 1961-63

www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
The dawn before one-party dominance: South Korea's road to party polit
This chapter offers insights into the party-political formation initially intended by the South Korean military junta under the leadership of Park Chung Hee
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December 4, 2024 at 11:01 AM
My review of Frank Gerits, The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945–1966 and Alessandro Iandolo, Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968 ojs.inz.si/pnz/article/...
Vpogled v Modernity beyond the Cold War: Ideology and Development in Postcolonial Africa, 1945–1968 | Contributions to Contemporary History
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December 2, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Reposted by Ivan Sablin
"Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies" is now available electronically from OUP and the hardback should be out on December 19! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Here is a thread on what we have put together:
November 28, 2024 at 12:38 PM