OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Russian History-Histoire Russe is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Foreign Military Law and Mercenary Contract in Seventeenth-Century Russia: The Сase of the Smolensk War, 1632–1634	2
At Any Cost. Gorbachev, the National Question, and His Struggle to Prevent the Country’s Disintegration	1
“Because of Him, We Have Pizza Hut!”	1
In Search of a Cultural Code	1
From “Living Constitutionalism” to “Zombie Apocalypse”. Valery Zorkin, the Constitutional Court and Russian Authoritarianism	1
Gorbachev as Late-Soviet Shock Therapist	1
Author’s Response to Commentaries	0
Josephians and the History of the Grand Prince of Moscow Revisited	0
Making an Anti-Hero or Describing a Tyrant? Postmodernism and Ivan the Terrible	0
Muscovite Claims to Rus Lands (1377–1700)	0
Front matter	0
Response	0
Why the GDL? Why Musсovy? The Early States of Eastern Europe in Comparative Historical Discourse	0
Back matter	0
Front matter	0
Rescuing Gorbachev from the Memory Hole	0
Mikhail Gorbachev and the Politics of Perestroika	0
Studying War in a Time of War: Russian Imperialism in the Seventeenth and Twenty-First Centuries	0
How the Field was Colonized: Russian History’s Ukrainian Blind Spot	0
Critical Acceptance of an Unloved Constitution. The Russian State Duma in the 1990s	0
“Whomsoever He Wishes As His Successor”: Paul Bushkovitch on Succession and Absolutism in Early Modern Russia	0
Developing a Commercial Press in Petersburg and Moscow: Institutions and Networks of Journalism under Alexander I and the Early Reign of Nicholas I	0
Reassessing Gorbachev	0
Over Hill and Dale in Pursuit of the Russian Fox	0
Destructively Independent. The Russian Central Bank Leadership in the Runup to the 1993 Constitutional Crisis	0

Russia Was Not an Empire, Poland Was: LeDonne’s Perspective on the Polish-Lithuanian Borderlands	0
Back matter	0
The Power and the Glory – and the Money	0
The 19th Century Origins of Russia’s Fixation on Ukraine: Strengthening Global Influence and Securing Domestic Stability	0
The Last Vikings: Russian Boat Bandits and the Formation of Princely Power	0
Age of Genius or Century of Revolution? Russian Culture and Power Across the High-Low Divide, 1850–1950	0
De-Russification of Government as a Factor in the Disintegration of the USSR	0
Reflecting on Jeffrey Brooks’ The Firebird and the Fox: The Unusual but True Adventures of a Soviet Agronomist	0
The Comintern and the National and Colonial Question: the Roots of Soviet Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Racism Reconsidered	0
Introduction: Agency and Autonomy in the Russian Press across the 1917 Divide	0
A Construct That Obstructs: The Church Parties Model of Sixteenth-Century Russian Church Relations	0
Metropolitans of All Rus’, Protectors of Moscow: the Veneration of Metropolitan Petr (14th–16th Century)	0
The Defiantly Unfashionable Dr LeDonne	0
The Editorial Profession: The Rise of Private Newspaper Press in Late Imperial Russia	0
Ruling the Soviet Countryside behind the Frontlines	0
Official Responses to Ethnic Unrest in the USSR, 1985–1991	0
Front matter	0
Constitutionalism in Russia. From Special Modes of Governance to Constitutional Normalcy	0
The Moscow Strel’tsy in the Dynastic Crisis of 1689	0
Blindspots in the Historiography of Russia’s Colonial Rule over South Ukraine and Crimea	0
Parties and Factions in the Russian Orthodox Church, 1480–1580: Some Observations	0
Josephans and Non-Possessors (Trans-Volga Elders) during the Reign of Ivan IV	0
“The Pillars of Our Statehood:” Glasnost’, Soviet Networks, and National Mobilization	0
The Gorbachev Moment – and Why It Was So Brief	0
Periodization as Decolonization	0
Why Did Russia Not Become a Composite State?	0
Kopeck Journalism as a Social Profession: Upward Mobility, Service, and the Civil Society Spectrum in Late Imperial Russia	0
The Ultimate Bolshevik	0
“Not a Personal Matter”: Soviet Conservative Discourse on Homosexuality in the 1960s and 1970s	0
The Salaries of Officials and Officers in the Russian Empire	0
Collectivization and National Question in Soviet Udmurtia	0
Front matter	0
In Search of One’s Self: Russian Travelers in the Balkans in 1800–1830s	0
F.M. Dostoevsky’s Nationalism: History, Historiography, and Politics. An Old Controversy in a Post-2022 Context	0
Back matter	0
“A Window to the World”: Newspapers and Soviet Foreign Correspondents in the 1960s	0
Balancing the Books and Staging Operas under Duress: Bolshoi Theater Management, Wartime Economy and State Sponsorship in 1941–1945	0
Novgorod Counter Histories around 1700. The Story about Ivan the Terrible’s Raid of Novgorod Reconsidered	0
“German Pamphlets, Russian Chronicles, and Ivan the Terrible”	0
Religion and Revolution in a Sectarian Family of Late Tsarist Russia	0
Forced Penance in Russian Monasteries in the Second Half of the 18th Century: From Punishment of the Body to Correction of the Soul	0
Source Publication and Genealogical Research in Rossiiskaia genealogiia. Nauchnyi al’manakh: A Reflection and a Review	0
Anti-war Russophone Poetry after Feb. 24, 2022: Reinterpreting Russian History and Culture	0
An Authoritative Accessory. The IMF’s Role in the 1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis	0
Church and State and the Conflict over the Erosion of Morals in 18th-Century Russia	0
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the Beginning of World War II as Perceived by Soviet Citizens: New Sources and Interpretations	0
The Return of longue durée in Political History of the Russian Empire	0
Author’s Response	0
The Socialist Great Divergence. Why Mikhail Gorbachev Failed Where Deng Xiaoping Succeeded	0
Escape from Political Freedom. The Constitutional Crisis of 1993 and Russia’s Political Trajectory	0

“Russian Emigres in Volynia during the Reign of Ivan IV”	0
Beyond the Church Parties Model: A Reply	0
Autocracy, Nationality, Progress: Urban Space and Russian Social Investigations of the 1830s	0
“A Unitary State of Difference?”	0
Double Devil’s Advocacy: Were They or Weren’t They? Only Nil Sorskii Knew	0
Reading Between the Institutions, Reading Between the Genres, Reading Between the Lines: Jeffrey Brooks’ The Firebird and the Fox	0