Parliamentary history of the early 20th century Russia in the works of Igor K. Kiryanov

The article deals with the works of historian Igor K. Kiryanov on parliamentary history of Russia. He is one of the founders of parliamentary history as a new direction in modern Russian historiography, contributing to its development through the use of new, interdisciplinary methodological approaches. The research arsenal of Kiryanov contains historical versions of the humanities (political science, anthropology, elitology, etc.), as well as methods of historical information science. Kiryanov's innovation was an attempt to interpret the parliamentary history of Russia in the context of the modernization paradigm through the prism of the theory of "democratic transit". In his opinion, in Russia of the early 20th century, there was “Homo politicus”, or “Political man”, in the form of "public policy", identified primarily with the deputy of the State Duma. Kiryanov studied not only the genesis and development, but also the failure of the "Russian transit", in connection with which he dwelt on the fate of the parliamentary Romanov monarchy in the early 20th century and the State Duma after the victory of the February revolution in 1917. The classification of the deputies of the pre-revolutionary parliament, made in the context of the historical and anthropological paradigm, is another innovation of Kiryanov, as well as his concept of the correlation between the political everyday life of the State Duma and its electorate. However, Kiryanov's discourse is no stranger to the traditional language, which enables the researcher to build bridges between the “old” and “new” historiography, thereby ensuring the successive, and hence successful, development of Russian historical science at the present stage.