New articles by Alexander Semyonov and Anton Kotenko
Articles have been prepared as part of the "Post-Imperial Diversity" project which is being implemented in 2018-2020 as part of a fundamental research competition conducted by the RFBR in the Era.net RUS Plus Research Program in a research consortium with the Karelian Institute of the University of Eastern Finland and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity of the University of Goettingen, Germany
Alexander Semyonov, “Imperial Parliament for a Hybrid Empire: Representative Experiments in Early Twentieth Century Russian Empire,” Journal of Eurasian Studies 11:1 (2020): 30-39.
This article argues that the history of Russian constitutional and parliamentary reform at the beginning of the 20th century can be presented in a new light, given the global transformation of political life in the face of imperial diversity and mass politics.
Anton Kotenko, “Mykhailo Drahomanov's ideas of parliament,” Journal of Eurasian Studies 11:1 (2020): 6–14.
Ukrainian parliamentarism and constitutionalism have a long history. Its brightest episode occurred 100 years ago, in 1917–1921, when the Ukrainian activists tried to cope with the breakup of the Romanov Empire by suggesting various projects of its reconstruction. In this article, author argues that the history of these projects began at least half a century earlier, when a young professor of history at Kiev University, Mykhailo Drahomanov, started to reflect upon future reorganization of the Russian Empire into a parliamentary state.
Semyonov A. Wither Russian Liberalism?, in: Dimensions and Challenges of Russian Liberalism: Historical Drama and New Prospects / Ed. by R. M. Cucciolla. Vol. 8. Cham : Springer, 2019. P. 27-42.
The chapter takes the case of the formation of the Constitutional Democratic party (the Kadets) in the context of emerging mass politics, 1905 revolution, and political reforms.
Semyonov A., Smith J. Nationalism and Empire before and after 1917 // Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. 2017. Vol. 17. No. 3. P. 369-380.
The article reassesses some of the recent historiographic developments in studies of the Russian Revolution and the collapse of the Russian Empire.