1st Edition
Parliaments in the Late Russian Empire, Revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet Union
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
Biography
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.
