East European Politics and Societies

Papers
(The median citation count of East European Politics and Societies 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Václav Havel: Posthumous Reclamation of a National Hero?18
In Need of a Leader: Bolesław Piasecki’s Charismatic Leadership in the 1930s14
Savoring Polishness: History and Tradition in Contemporary Polish Food Media11
Gender Differences in Public Issue Salience: Evidence from Czechia8
Oligarch Moralities of Wealth: The Russian Case7
The Reform Communist Interpretation of the Stalinist Period in Czech Historiography and Its Legacy7
Exclusively Our People: Defining Tribalism through the Slovak Case6
The Effectiveness of Grassroots Lobbying at the Regional Level in Poland: The Cases of Opole and Subcarpathian Region5
Inherent Attitudes or Misplaced Policies? Explaining COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Romania5
In Defense of Liberal Democracy: Exploring Motivations for Protesting against Democratic Backsliding5
Proposing Anti-LGBTQIAP Resolutions at the Municipal Level in Poland: Meeting the Social Demand or Making Use of the Available Resources?4
The Evolution of Civic Activism in Contemporary Russia4
Playing Locally but Commuting to a Better School: Urban Planning and Education Policies in Parental Involvement Practices and Local Community Formation4
Not So Much Societal: The Catholic Church in Poland as a Veto Player4
Perpetrators and Victims Blurred in the Soundscape of Wartime Mass Rallies: The Third-Generation Perspective in Marcel Beyer’s The Karnau Tapes and Kateřina Tučková’s Gerta4
Is it Greener on the Right Side? The Relationship between Political Preferences and Environmental Behavior in Hungary4
Overlooked and Undeserving: Older People in Narratives of Return in Post-1989 East Germany4
The Toolkit of Nationalist Populism in Contemporary Hungary: Symbols, Objects, and Modalities of Circulation3
Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe3
The Rise and Decline of Polish Revisionist Marxist Economics: The Fates of Włodzimierz Brus and the Faculty of Political Economy (University of Warsaw), 1953–19683
The Ethnopolitical Motivation behind the Formation of New Municipalities in Montenegro3
Obedience to Authority: Attitudes of Prison Officers in Stalinist Poland, 1944–19543
Bottom-up Content Convergence Phenomena in Socialist Cultural Economies: The Case of Premodern Story Universes of Romanian Film and Music3
Underestimated Ally: Ukraine during the Polish–Soviet War of 1920 in Polish Underground Publications (1976–1989)3
Expelled from the Fairytale: The Impact of the Dissident Legacy on Post-1989 Central European Politics3
Artists and Generals: The Representation of Colonial and National Rule through Street Naming3
Three Accounts—Two World Wars—One Town: Narratives of War and Genocide in Eastern Galicia2
Are They Building a “Second Ireland” in Poland? Political Remitting by Polish Migrants and Return Migrants from Ireland2
Silesians in the Face of Polish Cultural Dominance2
Being “Local” in Eastern Slovakia: Belonging in a Multiethnic Periphery2
Political Will and Media Law: A Poland Case Analysis2
Key Features and Factors behind Social Trust Formation in Ukraine2
Corrigendum to Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Toward a Dynamic Approach2
Dreams of a Democratic Peace: The Carnival at 352
“Paradoxical” Dissatisfaction among Post-Socialist Farmers with the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: A Study of Farmers’ Subjectivities in Rural Poland2
“Forgotten Friend(s)”: Polish Literary Diplomacy in Slovenia2
Party Views on Democratic Backsliding and Differentiated Integration2
The Idea of the Yugoslav–Bulgarian Federation at the End of the Second World War2
The Logic of the Punisher: Retrospective Voting and Hyper-Accountability in Lithuania2
The Unintended Costs and Unfulfilled Promises of Concurrent Elections: A Natural Experiment on Turnout and Invalid Voting2
Agency Attributions under a Normative Crisis: Corpus Analysis of Emerging Frameworks of Meaning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland2
Biographies of Belonging in the Holocaust2
The Ethnic Card: From Diaspora Policy Instrument to Migration Policy Trigger. The Case of the Pole’s Card2
Narrative(s) of Return and the Gendered Memory Politics of Post-1989 Transformation: Populist Familism, Catholic Fundamentalism, and Liberal Feminism in Poland2
Economic Growth Determinants in South-East European Countries: A System Generalized Method of Moments Approach2
The Development of National Cinema in Post-Maidan Ukraine2
How Historians Got Involved in Memory Politics: Patterns of the Historiography of the Polish People’s Republic before and after 19892
Being There as Socialism Unravels2
Re-enchanting Modernity in the East and West: Comparative Perspectives on the Legacy of 1968. An Author Meets Her Reviewers: A Symposium2
Nationalist versus Populist Constructions of “the People”: Eastern Europe and Latin America in Comparative Perspective2
Party System Change and Challenges to Democracy in Slovenia2
The Last Mass Execution of World War II: The Roundup Carried Out by Soviet Troops in the Augustów Forest in July 19452
The Politics of Work: Young Employees’ Awareness of Industrial Relations in Romania’s Call Centres2
From Opposition to Implementation: Unraveling the Strategy of Technocratic Populist Government’s Appropriation of Opposition Policy Proposals2
Purim Gifts from Russian Neighbors: Prewar Identity Formation and Wartime Survival among Young Jews from Soviet Vitebsk1
Making Lace after Socialism: Creativity, Gender, and the Politics of the Commons1
Religion and National Identity in Central and Eastern European Countries: Persisting and Evolving Links1
The Impact of War on Interethnic Godparenthood in Ukraine1
A Balkan Neofunctional Success Story or the Curious Case of Bosnia’s Central Bank1
Communist Prison Camps as Sites of Memory and Legacies of Dissent: Belene and Goli Otok in Bulgarian and Croatian Cultural Memory1
Retroactive Catastrophe1
The Entrepreneur in “Transformation Cinema”: Representing the Economic Changes of the 1990s in Poland, Czech Republic, and Slovakia1
Neo-Feudalism and Neo-Traditionalism as Responses to Liberalism1
The Imagined City: The Great Flood of 1997 as a Foundation Story of Wrocław1
The Inner Dynamics of Moral Economies: The Case of Waste Management1
How Do Political Parties Capture New Democracies? Hungary and North Macedonia in Comparison1
Backsliding versus Backlash: Do Challenges to Democracy in East Central Europe Threaten LGBTQIAP Empowerment?1
Introduction: Civic Activism in Central and Eastern Europe Thirty Years After Communism’s Demise1
Expression of Dissidence: NOW-a Publishing House as a Social Movement Campaign under an Authoritarian Regime1
Cultural Liberal and Conservative Mobilizing Potential and Political Participation in Post-Communist Countries1
And Mama Studied with Me: Elementary Education, Modernization, Gendered Curricula, and the Reconfiguration of the Public and Private in the Danubian Principalities and Greek Lands, 1810s-1840s1
The Polish Countryside as a Gray Zone: Village Heads and the Meso Level of the General Government, 1939–19451
Fiscal Burden as a Determinant of Innovation Performance in the CEE Countries1
Being Polish, Jewish, and Tarnovian: Youth and Polyvalent Senses of Belonging during the Second Polish Republic1
Why Brothers in Kosovo Build Identical Houses: The House as an Attempt to Adapt to Contradictions of Globalization1
Post-Dissident Politics and the “Liberal Consensus” in East-Central Europe after 19891
Sustainable Consumption Consciousness and Middle-Income Class Affiliation: Theory and Evidence from Poland1
Trianon in Popular History in Late-Socialist and Post-Transition Hungary: A Case Study1
Russia, the Western Balkans, and the Question of Status1
Time for Regional Parties to Shine or for National Parties to Lock Horns Again? The True Nature of Czech Regional Elections1
Unsettling Borderlands: The Population Exchange and the Polish Minority in Soviet Belarus, 1944–19471
The EU and Dispute Settlement: The Case of the Macedonian Name Issue1
A Pole, a Jew, a Mother, a Communist: Tonia Lechtman’s Biography between Home and Exile1
Platens from the Past: Yugonostalgia and the UNIS-tbm Typewriter1
The Political-Administrative Nexus in Sub-National Governance: Exploring the Lack of Independent Administration in Poland1
Terror in Przedbórz: The Night of 26 May 19451
Introduction to the Special Section: National, European, Transnational: Far-Right Activism in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries1
Never-Ending Journeys to the Past1
Are Your Hands Covered in Jewish Blood? Jewish Red Army Soldiers Encountering the Aftermath of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union1
The Conflict in Eastern Ukraine and International Support for the Decentralization Reform (2014–2022): Theory-Guided Observations1
Writing on Communist History in Central Europe: Introduction1
Between Conflict and Cooperation: Electoral Strategies of Ethnic Parties0
Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Toward a Dynamic Approach0
Monitoring Democracy in the Eastern Neighbourhood: When Are the EU’s Assessments Lenient and Why?0
Introduction: Under-Explored Consequences of the War in Ukraine0
From Leipzig to Kyiv through Brussels: How the Revolution of 1989 Defined an Era0
How Right-Wing Populists Influence Citizenship Education—Evidence from Poland0
Commemorating Martial Law as Treason0
Preaching the “Traditional Family” in the Romanian Parliament: The Political Stakes and Meanings of a Hegemonic Narrative0
Mobilizing against Democratic Backsliding: What Motivates Protestors in Central and Eastern Europe?0
Generational Changes in Attitudes toward the European Union in Poland and Ukraine0
Elite Universities as Populist Scapegoats: Evidence from Hungary and Turkey0
Differentiated European Integration of Ukraine in Comparative Perspective0
Party Nomination Strategies in Flexible-List PR: Which Candidate Characteristics Lead to Realistic Positions?0
Influenced by Power or Reasons? The Role of Amicus Curiae Briefs in Constitutional Court Decision-Making0
Blind Spots in Post-1989 Czech Historiography of State Socialism: Gender as a Category of Analysis0
The East and the West: Regional Deservingness and Migration Aspirations of Displaced Ukrainians Living in Poland and the Czech Republic0
Pre-War Government and Party Networks in the Rebel Political Institutions: Individual Co-Optation in Eastern Ukraine0
“Is Juvenile Delinquency in Lithuania Increasing because of the Bad Influence of the West”? Punitive Attitudes of the Lithuanian Population towards Juvenile Offenders0
In the Shadows of the Commonwealth: Catholicism, Religious Tolerance, and Nineteenth-Century Polish Independence0
Taming Transylvania: Paramilitaries Building State and Peace after World War I0
The Role of Legitimacy in Shaping Tax Morale: The Case of Hungary0
Idiotic or Columbo’s Wife? Constitutional Conventions in the Czech Republic0
The EU, the Visegrád Group, and Southeast Europe: Conflicting Perspectives within an Enlarging “European Identity”0
Caring for the Child, Caring for the Family: The Clash over the National Strategy for the Child (2019–2030) in Bulgaria0
A Narrow Path to Victory: Robert Fico, Smer-SD, and the 2023 Elections in Slovakia0
Families in Times of Crisis: Narratives of Family and Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Slovakia0
The Quality of Local Institutions: The Case of Poland0
Law between Nationalism and Regionalism: The Integration of the Transylvanian Juridical Field in Greater Romania (1918–1927)0
Historical Sociology in Poland: Transformations of the Uses of the Past0
Late Bystander Testimonies in East Galicia: Between Memory, Identity, and Loyalties0
The Moral Matrix of Capitalism: Insights from Central and Eastern Europe0
Homo sovieticus and the Neoliberal Legacy of Polish Dissent0
Civic Engagement and Its Disparate Goals in Bosnia-Herzegovina0
How Can One Assess the Level of Party Newness, Continuity, and Change? Some Examples from Poland0
Editors’ Note0
Consensus-Seeking and Reversed Representation among Polish Officials in the Council of the European Union0
Fictionalizing the Past in Estonia: Cultural Memory in Women’s Literature0
Against Dictatorship, against Backsliding? Examining the Effect of Serbian Anti-Government Protests on the 2020 Electoral Boycott0
East European Politics and Societies’ Statement on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine0
From the Editors0
Different Meanings of Proper Nutrition: The Sociopolitical Dynamics of the Relationship between Body and State in the 1970s and 2010s Poland0
The Great Terror in 1930s Kharkiv: The Case of Konrad Weisselberg and Anna Mykalo0
Lustration: A Post-Communist Phenomenon0
Churches in an Ever-Changing Socio-Political Context0
Opening, Polling, Counting: Deterring Election-Day Fraud0
The Gaze of the Implicated Subject: Non-Jewish Testimony to Communal Violence during the German Occupation of Lithuania0
Interpretative Frames, Phenomenology, and the Question of the Republican Character of Polish and Czech Dissident Movements of the 1970s and 1980s0
From Dissidence to Heroism: Constructing an Ideal Post-Communist Identity in the Czech Republic0
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and the Repatriation of East Prussian Deportees from Simbirsk during World War I0
The Political Opportunity Structure and the Evolution of the Organizational Base of Peasants’ and Farmers’ Protest Activity in Poland in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries0
From Gender Re-Traditionalizations to Anti-Gender Mobilizations: Care for Family in Serbia and Croatia0
Home as an Uncanny Site of Violence in Polish-Jewish Autobiographical Texts on the Holocaust0
The Mobilization for Spatial Justice in Divided Societies: Urban Commons, Trust Reconstruction, and Socialist Memory in Bosnia and Herzegovina0
Cultural Expertise versus Strategic Ignorance: Confronting Cultural Diversity In and Out of Court in Poland0
Race, Innocence, and Objectification of the Nation in Latvia0
Reproductive Choices and Climate Change in a Pronatalist Context0
Vladimir’s Bakarić’s Idea of a Socialist (Croatian) Nation: From Communist Historicism to Depoliticization0
György Konrád as a Post-Dissident Public Intellectual Biography, Interventions, Reception0
How Does the “Us” versus “Them” Polarization Work? Capturing Political Antagonism with the Political Antagonism Scale0
Intersection of Conflicting Values: Symbols of Memory and Acts of Artistic Expression0
Integration Maturity of Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine: Has DCFTA Helped Prepare Them for the EU Accession Process?0
From Class Struggle to Conservative Revolution: Andrzej Wajda Censors Tadeusz Junak’s The Palace0
Perceptions of the European Union’s Policy Impact: Europeanisation of Public Attitudes in Hungary0
Challenging Civil Society Elites in Poland: The Dynamics and Strategies of Civil Society Actors0
Unwillingly Orientalist: Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s Travel Diary to Burma as an Example of an Unusual Postcolonial Eastern European Account0
Failure Privilege in Policymaking: Exploitation, (In)visibilization, and Future Projection in Abortion Policy in Poland0
Representations of Dissent against Communism in Romania: Anti-Communist Heroes, “Prison Saints,” and (Extra)Ordinary Citizens0
Luddites of the Twenty-First Century? The Influence of Trade Unions in Hard Coal Mining on Sector Reforms in Poland and the Czech Republic0
Populist Juggling with Fear: The Case of Hungary0
Intragovernmental Grant Distribution and Party Alignment Bias under Democratic and Authoritarian Governments: The Case of Poland0
Between Ideological Loyalty and Political Adaptation: The “Agrarian Question” in the Development of Bulgarian Social Democracy, 1891–19120
Premarital Sex in State-Socialist Poland: A Generational Perspective0
From the Bronze Soldier to the “Bloody Marshal”: Monument Wars and Russia’s Aesthetic Vulnerability in Estonia and the Czech Republic0
Whose Interest Really Matters? The Role of NGOs’ Representatives within Local Advisory Councils in Poland0
Participation in Polish Local Elections: Sheer Rational Choice or Social Embeddedness Fate?0
An Arrested Dialectic: The National Past and (Post-)Dissident Catholic Moral Reasoning in Slovakia0
How Do Bigger and Smaller Cities Manage Migration? Ukrainian War Refugees in Polish Cities0
“Work Hard, Play Hard”: The Moral Economy of Company Celebrations in Post-Socialist Bulgaria0
Contending Temporalities: Stretching the Temporal Reach of Lustration in Central and Eastern Europe0
“Me? I’m No Revolution. I’m No Heroine.” Reconfiguring the Dissident in Contemporary Polish Theater0
The 1990 Revolution on Granite: Lessons from the First Maidan0
“We No Longer Only Carry Flowers”: Radicalization Processes Among the Belarusian Opposition-in-Exile0
Civic Mobilization against Democratic Backsliding in Post-Communist Europe0
After All These Years, Still Divided by Memories? East Central Europe and European Union Politics of Memory Twenty Years after the Enlargement0
Remembering on Command: Autobiographical Narratives of the Officers of the Polish Security Forces, 1944–19560
The Moral Economy of Welfare: Bulgarian Roma Migrants Reclaiming Social Citizenship through Fraud0
Introduction to the Special Issue “Canonizing and Contesting Communist-Era Dissent in Eastern Europe: Actors, Representations, and Impacts since 1989”0
Peripheralization Processes as a Contextual Source of Populist Vote Choices: Evidence from the Czech Republic and Eastern Germany0
Symbolic Conflict in the Public Sphere: The Catholic Church against the State in Post-Communist Poland0
Labor, Work, and Action in Polish Community Gardens: Interlaced or Disconnected?0
Economic Strain in Post-Communist Countries and the Rest of Europe: Attitudes Towards the Unemployed and the Old0
Outcomes, Politicians, or the Institution Itself? Using a Czech Case to Explain Trust Formation in Different Political Institutions and the Implications for Voter Turnout0
The Dark Side of Transnational Mobility: Croatian Travel Writers in Hitler’s New Europe0
Factors in National Self-Designation of Slavic Muslims in the Montenegrin Sandžak0
Bringing the Virus Back Home: Media Representations of Ukrainian Labour Migrants in a Time of Pandemic0
Postsocialist and Postcapitalist Questions? Far-Right Historical Narratives and the Making of a New Europe0
Preferences for Redistribution, Welfare Chauvinism, and Radical Right Party Support in Central and Eastern Europe0
Historical Legacies and Their Impact on Human Capital: Comparing Regions within Romania0
Five Lives of a Holocaust Survivor: On Shifting Identities, the Search for Belonging, and Building Meaning0
The Incumbency Advantage during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examining the 2020 Polish Presidential Election0
Dissidents, Rebels, and Everyday Heroes: New Perspectives on the Digital Archiving of Cultural Resistance Under State Socialism0
Improving Living Conditions, Deepening Class Divisions: Hungarian Class Structure in International Comparison, 2002–20180
Corruption, Campaigning, and Novelty: The 2020 Parliamentary Elections and the Evolving Patterns of Party Politics in Slovakia0
Ownership Transformations in a Post-Transition Economy: Which Institutions Matter? Evidence from the Polish Banking Sector0
Writing Władysław Gomułka’s Life: Historiography of Władysław Gomułka’s Biographies0
“Secret Services Are Meant To Serve”: State Violence in the Autobiographic Memory of Secret Police Officers in Communist Poland0
Enver Hoxha’s Last Purge: Inside the Ruling Circle of Communist Albania (1981–1983)0
“A Disease Like Any Other”: Awareness-Raising and Neuro-tivization of Depression in Poland0
Actions Speak Louder Than Words? The Untapped Potential of V4 Parliaments in EU Affairs0
The Moral Career of a Suspected Legionary: Psychological Language in the Securitate Archives0
Shrinking, Shifting, and Strengthening: The Dynamics and Diversity of Civic Activism in Poland0
Do Populists in Power or the Economy Impact Civic Culture?0
Restoring What Never Existed: The Role of Familism in Narratives of Return in Hungary0
From the Editors and From the Translator0
Personalized Value Struggles amid Marketization: The Search for the Good among Men on the Margins of Bucharest0
Transnational Far Right and Nazi Soft Power in Eastern Europe: The Humboldt Fellowships for Romanians0
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