East European Politics and Societies

Article	Citations
Counter-Elite Populism and Civil Society in Poland: PiS’s Strategies of Elite Replacement	25
The Embodiment of Deviance: The Biopolitics of the “Difficult Child” in Socialist Czechoslovakia	18
How Do Politicians Capture a State? Evidence from State-Owned Enterprises	13
Corruption, Campaigning, and Novelty: The 2020 Parliamentary Elections and the Evolving Patterns of Party Politics in Slovakia	11
Aspiring, Ambivalent, Assertive: Bulgarian Middle-Class Subjectivities and Boundary Work through Migration	8
Introduction: The Middle Class in Post-socialist Europe: Ethnographies of Its “Good Life”	8
Central and Eastern Europe, China’s Core Interests, and the Limits of Relational Politics: Lessons from the Czech Republic in the 2010s	8
Challenging Civil Society Elites in Poland: The Dynamics and Strategies of Civil Society Actors	8
Populism and Memory: Legislation of the Past in Poland, Ukraine, and Russia	8
Circulation, Conditions, Claims: Examining the Politics of Historical Memory in Eastern Europe	7
The East of the West, or the West of the East? Attitudes toward the European Union and European Integration in Poland after 2008	7
“Vrem o ţară ca afară!”: How Contention in Romania Redefines State-Building through a Pro-European Discourse	6
Explaining the Formation Rates of Post-Communist Interest Organizations: Density Dependence and Political Opportunity Structure	6
Migration and Socio-economic Transition: Lessons from the Polish Post–EU Accession Experience	6
Navigating Conflicts through the Media: The Sceptical and Self-Responsible Repertoires of Baltic Russian-Speakers	5
Agents of Europeanization: Think Tanks Discussing the Refugee Crisis in the Czech Republic	5
Preparing for a “Good Life”: Extracurriculars and the Romanian Middle Class	5
“Belgrade to Belgradians, Not Foreign Capitalists”: International Statebuilding, Contentious Politics, and New Forms of Political Representation in Serbia	5
Think Tanks in a Limited Access Order: The Case of Ukraine	5
The Evolution of Civic Activism in Contemporary Russia	5
Introduction: Travelling from West to East: Think Tank Model Adaptation to Central and Eastern Europe	5
Poland versus Russia: Competition in Ukraine	5
Shrinking, Shifting, and Strengthening: The Dynamics and Diversity of Civic Activism in Poland	5
Preferences for Redistribution, Welfare Chauvinism, and Radical Right Party Support in Central and Eastern Europe	4
Strange Bedfellows: A Hyper-pragmatic Alliance between European Liberals and an Illiberal Czech Technocrat	4

From the Bronze Soldier to the “Bloody Marshal”: Monument Wars and Russia’s Aesthetic Vulnerability in Estonia and the Czech Republic	4
Solidarity Reasoning and Citizenship Agendas: From Socialist Yugoslavia to Neoliberal Serbia	4
Dangling in a Vacuum: A Presentation of Polish Think Tanks in Political Life	4
Between Europeanisation and Corporatisation: Poland’s Nation Branding and Soft Power for Public Consumption	4
Genesis of a Social Space: Think Tanks in Belarus 1992–1995	4
“Paradoxical” Dissatisfaction among Post-Socialist Farmers with the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: A Study of Farmers’ Subjectivities in Rural Poland	4
How Historians Got Involved in Memory Politics: Patterns of the Historiography of the Polish People’s Republic before and after 1989	4
The Unintended Costs and Unfulfilled Promises of Concurrent Elections: A Natural Experiment on Turnout and Invalid Voting	4
A Post-Soviet Eco-Digital Nation? Metonymic Processes of Nation-Building and Estonia’s High-Tech Dreams in the 2010s	3
Postsocialist and Postcapitalist Questions? Far-Right Historical Narratives and the Making of a New Europe	3
The Void Communities: Towards a New Approach to the Early Post-war in Poland and Ukraine	3
Political Will and Media Law: A Poland Case Analysis	3
Housing as a Fertility Trap: The Inability of States, Markets, or Families to Provide Adequate Housing in East Central Europe	3
Between Ethnic Group and Nation: Mihail Çakir’s Histories of the Gagauz	3
Investigating the Welfare Deservingness of Single Mothers: Public Image and Deservingness Perceptions in Hungary	3
Savoring Polishness: History and Tradition in Contemporary Polish Food Media	3
Aging Societies, Civil Societies, and the Role of the Past: Active Aging beyond Demography in Contemporary Poland	3
Issue Salience and Pledge Fulfilment in Minority and Majority Coalitions: Evidence from the Czech Republic	3
Remembering a Contentious Past: Resistance and Collaboration in the Former Soviet Union	3
The Triumph of Novelty over Experience? Social Policy Responses to Demographic Crises in Hungary and Poland since EU Enlargement	3
Historical Sociology in Poland: Transformations of the Uses of the Past	3
The Puzzle of Punitive Memory Laws: New Insights into the Origins and Scope of Punitive Memory Laws	2
Actions Speak Louder Than Words? The Untapped Potential of V4 Parliaments in EU Affairs	2
When Business and Politics Mix: Local Networks and Socio-political Transformations in Ukraine	2
How Political Parties in Hybrid Regimes Help the Incumbent Maintain a Democratic Façade	2
Performing Memory in Conflicting Settings: Russian Immigrants and the Remembrance of World War II in Finland	2
Voice after Exit? Bulgarian Civic Activists between Protest and Emigration	2
Uncertain New Middle Classes: Changing Consumption Practices and State Policies in Russia	2
Negative and Engaged: Sentiments towards the 2016 Migrant Quota Referendum in Hungarian Online Media	2
“Does Džeko Live in Bosnia and Herzegovina?”: Demographics as a Hostage of Ethno-politics in the 2013 Census	2
Russia, the Western Balkans, and the Question of Status	2
The Toolkit of Nationalist Populism in Contemporary Hungary: Symbols, Objects, and Modalities of Circulation	2
When ENVER becomes NEVER: Memory Palimpsest in Berat, Albania	2
Party Views on Democratic Backsliding and Differentiated Integration	2
Peripheralization Processes as a Contextual Source of Populist Vote Choices: Evidence from the Czech Republic and Eastern Germany	2
Who Survives and Who Does Not? The Rise and Decline of Personalized Parties	2
Differentiated European Integration of Ukraine in Comparative Perspective	2
Recalling Katyń: Poland, Russia, and the Interstate Politics of History	2
Motorcycling in a Repair Society: A Maintenance and Repair–Centered Approach to Automobility	2
The Mobilization for Spatial Justice in Divided Societies: Urban Commons, Trust Reconstruction, and Socialist Memory in Bosnia and Herzegovina	2
The Development of National Cinema in Post-Maidan Ukraine	1
Overseas Mechanism: The Polonia Book Fund, Ltd., Transnational Network, 1958–1963	1
Proposing Anti-LGBTQIAP Resolutions at the Municipal Level in Poland: Meeting the Social Demand or Making Use of the Available Resources?	1
Violent Inclusion: Disability and the Nation in Polish 1950s and 1960s Young Adult Literature	1
Introduction to the Special Section: National, European, Transnational: Far-Right Activism in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries	1
The Incumbency Advantage during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examining the 2020 Polish Presidential Election	1
International Negotiations and Domestic Change in the EU’s Eastern Neighborhood: Deconstructing Antidiscrimination Reforms in Moldova	1
The Impact of Social Movements on Policy Outcomes in Partly Free Democracies: Evidence from the “Citizens for Macedonia” Struggles in a Captured Macedonian State	1
Expression of Dissidence: NOW-a Publishing House as a Social Movement Campaign under an Authoritarian Regime	1
Beyond Outrage: Approaching Arts Controversy in Postcommunist Poland	1

Civic Engagement and Its Disparate Goals in Bosnia-Herzegovina	1
The Gaze of the Implicated Subject: Non-Jewish Testimony to Communal Violence during the German Occupation of Lithuania	1
Unsettling Borderlands: The Population Exchange and the Polish Minority in Soviet Belarus, 1944–1947	1
Looking to the Past to Survive the Future: The Hungarian Minority in Slovakia	1
Struggling for a Socialist Fatherhood: “Re-educating” Men in East Germany, 1960–1989	1
Are They Building a “Second Ireland” in Poland? Political Remitting by Polish Migrants and Return Migrants from Ireland	1
Late Bystander Testimonies in East Galicia: Between Memory, Identity, and Loyalties	1
Fiscal Burden as a Determinant of Innovation Performance in the CEE Countries	1
(Un)doing Polishness: Negotiation of Ethnic Belonging in Personal Narratives about Karta Polaka	1
Different Meanings of Proper Nutrition: The Sociopolitical Dynamics of the Relationship between Body and State in the 1970s and 2010s Poland	1
The Rise and Decline of Polish Revisionist Marxist Economics: The Fates of Włodzimierz Brus and the Faculty of Political Economy (University of Warsaw), 1953–1968	1
The Logic of the Punisher: Retrospective Voting and Hyper-Accountability in Lithuania	1
Bracketing Democracy: A Comparison of Frames Used to Demarcate Democracy and Its Application to Developments in Poland	1
Premarital Sex in State-Socialist Poland: A Generational Perspective	1
Between Ideological Loyalty and Political Adaptation: The “Agrarian Question” in the Development of Bulgarian Social Democracy, 1891–1912	1
Introduction: Politics and Current Challenges of Demography in Central and Eastern Europe	1
Migrants into Humanitarians: Ethnic Solidarity and Private Aid-Giving during Romania’s Historic Flood of 1970	1
Running for Success: Marathon Boom and Middle-Class Bodies in Estonia	1
Vladimir’s Bakarić’s Idea of a Socialist (Croatian) Nation: From Communist Historicism to Depoliticization	1
Identity Politics or Economics? Explaining Voter Support for Hungary’s Illiberal FIDESZ	1
The Ethnopolitical Motivation behind the Formation of New Municipalities in Montenegro	1
Ownership Transformations in a Post-Transition Economy: Which Institutions Matter? Evidence from the Polish Banking Sector	1
External Democracy Promotion in Time of Democratic Crisis: Linkage, Leverage, and Domestic Actors’ Diversionary Behaviours	1
Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Toward a Dynamic Approach	1
Pre-War Government and Party Networks in the Rebel Political Institutions: Individual Co-Optation in Eastern Ukraine	1
Not So Much Societal: The Catholic Church in Poland as a Veto Player	1
Consensus-Seeking and Reversed Representation among Polish Officials in the Council of the European Union	1
The Entrepreneur in “Transformation Cinema”: Representing the Economic Changes of the 1990s in Poland, Czech Republic, and Slovakia	1
Socialism with an Occult Face: Aesthetics, Spirituality, and Utopia in Late Socialist Bulgaria	1
Cultural Liberal and Conservative Mobilizing Potential and Political Participation in Post-Communist Countries	1
Opting out of Socialism: For-Profit Mobility from Communist Poland	1
Introduction: Civic Activism in Central and Eastern Europe Thirty Years After Communism’s Demise	1
In Need of a Leader: Bolesław Piasecki’s Charismatic Leadership in the 1930s	1
The Social Paradox of Citizen Denunciation: Informing Practices in Modern Poland	1
Trianon in Popular History in Late-Socialist and Post-Transition Hungary: A Case Study	1
Inherent Attitudes or Misplaced Policies? Explaining COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Romania	0
“A Disease Like Any Other”: Awareness-Raising and Neuro-tivization of Depression in Poland	0
Luddites of the Twenty-First Century? The Influence of Trade Unions in Hard Coal Mining on Sector Reforms in Poland and the Czech Republic	0
The Quality of Local Institutions: The Case of Poland	0
Participation in Polish Local Elections: Sheer Rational Choice or Social Embeddedness Fate?	0
Playing the Law: The Attitude of Polish Dissidents towards Post-Stalinist and International Law before the Period of Solidarity	0
Improving Living Conditions, Deepening Class Divisions: Hungarian Class Structure in International Comparison, 2002–2018	0
“Is Juvenile Delinquency in Lithuania Increasing because of the Bad Influence of the West”? Punitive Attitudes of the Lithuanian Population towards Juvenile Offenders	0
Monitoring Democracy in the Eastern Neighbourhood: When Are the EU’s Assessments Lenient and Why?	0
Nationalist versus Populist Constructions of “the People”: Eastern Europe and Latin America in Comparative Perspective	0
Transnational Far Right and Nazi Soft Power in Eastern Europe: The Humboldt Fellowships for Romanians	0
Historical Legacies and Their Impact on Human Capital: Comparing Regions within Romania	0
Overlooked and Undeserving: Older People in Narratives of Return in Post-1989 East Germany	0
A Balkan Neofunctional Success Story or the Curious Case of Bosnia’s Central Bank	0
From the Editors	0
“Work Hard, Play Hard”: The Moral Economy of Company Celebrations in Post-Socialist Bulgaria	0
Playing Locally but Commuting to a Better School: Urban Planning and Education Policies in Parental Involvement Practices and Local Community Formation	0
Being “Local” in Eastern Slovakia: Belonging in a Multiethnic Periphery	0
From Orange to Red: Why the Security Services of Ukraine Changed the Approach to Handling Protests from 2004 to 2014	0
The Great Terror in 1930s Kharkiv: The Case of Konrad Weisselberg and Anna Mykalo	0
Opening, Polling, Counting: Deterring Election-Day Fraud	0
The Dark Side of Transnational Mobility: Croatian Travel Writers in Hitler’s New Europe	0
Beyond Censorship: Polish Independent Press Debates on Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah	0
Intragovernmental Grant Distribution and Party Alignment Bias under Democratic and Authoritarian Governments: The Case of Poland	0
Trust in the Underground: The Case from the History of “Solidarity”	0
The Imagined City: The Great Flood of 1997 as a Foundation Story of Wrocław	0
CORRIGENDUM to “Polish Intelligentsia Totems in Elites’ Struggles for Legitimization: The Case of Jerzy Giedroyc and Poland’s Eastern Policy”	0
The Moral Career of a Suspected Legionary: Psychological Language in the Securitate Archives	0
Writing Władysław Gomułka’s Life: Historiography of Władysław Gomułka’s Biographies	0
Are Your Hands Covered in Jewish Blood? Jewish Red Army Soldiers Encountering the Aftermath of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union	0
How Can One Assess the Level of Party Newness, Continuity, and Change? Some Examples from Poland	0
Elite Universities as Populist Scapegoats: Evidence from Hungary and Turkey	0
Introduction: Contentious Politics and International Statebuilding in Southeast Europe	0
Five Lives of a Holocaust Survivor: On Shifting Identities, the Search for Belonging, and Building Meaning	0
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and the Repatriation of East Prussian Deportees from Simbirsk during World War I	0
“Forgotten Friend(s)”: Polish Literary Diplomacy in Slovenia	0
The Moral Matrix of Capitalism: Insights from Central and Eastern Europe	0
How Right-Wing Populists Influence Citizenship Education—Evidence from Poland	0
Silesians in the Face of Polish Cultural Dominance	0
Restoring What Never Existed: The Role of Familism in the Narratives of Return in Hungary	0
Religion and National Identity in Central and Eastern European Countries: Persisting and Evolving Links	0
Blind Spots in Post-1989 Czech Historiography of State Socialism: Gender as a Category of Analysis	0
Bringing the Virus Back Home: Media Representations of Ukrainian Labour Migrants in a Time of Pandemic	0
Party System Change and Challenges to Democracy in Slovenia	0
Exclusively Our People: Defining Tribalism through the Slovak Case	0

“Secret Services Are Meant To Serve”: State Violence in the Autobiographic Memory of Secret Police Officers in Communist Poland	0
The Last Mass Execution of World War II: The Roundup Carried Out by Soviet Troops in the Augustów Forest in July 1945	0
How Does the “Us” versus “Them” Polarization Work? Capturing Political Antagonism with the Political Antagonism Scale	0
The 1990 Revolution on Granite: Lessons from the First Maidan	0
Editors’ Note	0
Bottom-up Content Convergence Phenomena in Socialist Cultural Economies: The Case of Premodern Story Universes of Romanian Film and Music	0
In the Shadows of the Commonwealth: Catholicism, Religious Tolerance, and Nineteenth-Century Polish Independence	0
Ethical Resistance: Modernity, Revisionism, and the Warsaw School of the History of Ideas	0
The EU, the Visegrád Group, and Southeast Europe: Conflicting Perspectives within an Enlarging “European Identity”	0
The Impact of War on Interethnic Godparenthood in Ukraine	0
From Gender Re-Traditionalizations to Anti-Gender Mobilizations: Care for Family in Serbia and Croatia	0
Terror in Przedbórz: The Night of 26 May 1945	0
Contending Temporalities: Stretching the Temporal Reach of Lustration in Central and Eastern Europe	0
How Do Political Parties Capture New Democracies? Hungary and North Macedonia in Comparison	0
The Grabski Tax Reform and Jewish Merchants: State Building in Interwar Poland	0
Biographies of Belonging in the Holocaust	0
Economic Growth Determinants in South-East European Countries: A System Generalized Method of Moments Approach	0
Symbolic Conflict in the Public Sphere: The Catholic Church against the State in Post-Communist Poland	0
Is Liberal Democracy Already History?	0
Failure Privilege in Policymaking: Exploitation, (In)visibilization, and Future Projection in Abortion Policy in Poland	0
A Pole, a Jew, a Mother, a Communist: Tonia Lechtman’s Biography between Home and Exile	0
Economic Strain in Post-Communist Countries and the Rest of Europe: Attitudes Towards the Unemployed and the Old	0
East European Politics and Societies’ Statement on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine	0
Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe	0
Dissidents, Rebels, and Everyday Heroes: New Perspectives on the Digital Archiving of Cultural Resistance Under State Socialism	0
Commemorating Martial Law as Treason	0
The Birth of Leaders: Regional Chairmen of the Solidarity Movement	0
Being Polish, Jewish, and Tarnovian: Youth and Polyvalent Senses of Belonging during the Second Polish Republic	0
Whose Interest Really Matters? The Role of NGOs’ Representatives within Local Advisory Councils in Poland	0
Party Nomination Strategies in Flexible-List PR: Which Candidate Characteristics Lead to Realistic Positions?	0
From Strikes to Solidarity: The Diffusion of Protests in Poland in the Summer of 1980	0
The EU and Dispute Settlement: The Case of the Macedonian Name Issue	0
Factors in National Self-Designation of Slavic Muslims in the Montenegrin Sandžak	0
Oligarch Moralities of Wealth: The Russian Case	0
Underestimated Ally: Ukraine during the Polish–Soviet War of 1920 in Polish Underground Publications (1976–1989)	0
The Idea of the Yugoslav–Bulgarian Federation at the End of the Second World War	0
Sustainable Consumption Consciousness and Middle-Income Class Affiliation: Theory and Evidence from Poland	0
Introduction: Socialism to Be Embodied	0
From the Editors	0
Perceptions of the European Union’s Policy Impact: Europeanisation of Public Attitudes in Hungary	0
Time for Regional Parties to Shine or for National Parties to Lock Horns Again? The True Nature of Czech Regional Elections	0
Personalized Value Struggles amid Marketization: The Search for the Good among Men on the Margins of Bucharest	0
Populist Juggling with Fear: The Case of Hungary	0
Cultural Expertise versus Strategic Ignorance: Confronting Cultural Diversity In and Out of Court in Poland	0
Caring for the Child, Caring for the Family: The Clash over the National Strategy for the Child (2019–2030) in Bulgaria	0
Taming Transylvania: Paramilitaries Building State and Peace after World War I	0
Home as an Uncanny Site of Violence in Polish-Jewish Autobiographical Texts on the Holocaust	0
Key Features and Factors behind Social Trust Formation in Ukraine	0
From the Editors and From the Translator	0
Narrative(s) of Return and the Gendered Memory Politics of Post-1989 Transformation: Populist Familism, Catholic Fundamentalism, and Liberal Feminism in Poland	0
Lustration: A Post-Communist Phenomenon	0
The Elites of Solidarity: Prosopography of Delegates for the First National Congress of Solidarity	0
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-1840s	0
The Polish Countryside as a Gray Zone: Village Heads and the Meso Level of the General Government, 1939–1945	0
The Effectiveness of Grassroots Lobbying at the Regional Level in Poland: The Cases of Opole and Subcarpathian Region	0
Influenced by Power or Reasons? The Role of Amicus Curiae Briefs in Constitutional Court Decision-Making	0
Intersection of Conflicting Values: Symbols of Memory and Acts of Artistic Expression	0
The Inner Dynamics of Moral Economies: The Case of Waste Management	0
Purim Gifts from Russian Neighbors: Prewar Identity Formation and Wartime Survival among Young Jews from Soviet Vitebsk	0
Writing on Communist History in Central Europe: Introduction	0
Race, Innocence, and Objectification of the Nation in Latvia	0
Re-enchanting Modernity in the East and West: Comparative Perspectives on the Legacy of 1968. An Author Meets Her Reviewers: A Symposium	0
The Moral Economy of Welfare: Bulgarian Roma Migrants Reclaiming Social Citizenship through Fraud	0
Three Accounts—Two World Wars—One Town: Narratives of War and Genocide in Eastern Galicia	0
The Conflict in Eastern Ukraine and International Support for the Decentralization Reform (2014–2022): Theory-Guided Observations	0
The Reform Communist Interpretation of the Stalinist Period in Czech Historiography and Its Legacy	0
Retroactive Catastrophe	0
Unwillingly Orientalist: Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s Travel Diary to Burma as an Example of an Unusual Postcolonial Eastern European Account	0
Enver Hoxha’s Last Purge: Inside the Ruling Circle of Communist Albania (1981–1983)	0
Corrigendum to Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Toward a Dynamic Approach	0
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 Centuries	0
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 Gerta	0
Remembering on Command: Autobiographical Narratives of the Officers of the Polish Security Forces, 1944–1956	0
How Do Bigger and Smaller Cities Manage Migration? Ukrainian War Refugees in Polish Cities	0
Idiotic or Columbo’s Wife? Constitutional Conventions in the Czech Republic	0
Interpretative Frames, Phenomenology, and the Question of the Republican Character of Polish and Czech Dissident Movements of the 1970s and 1980s	0
Preaching the “Traditional Family” in the Romanian Parliament: The Political Stakes and Meanings of a Hegemonic Narrative	0
Obedience to Authority: Attitudes of Prison Officers in Stalinist Poland, 1944–1954	0
Law between Nationalism and Regionalism: The Integration of the Transylvanian Juridical Field in Greater Romania (1918–1927)	0
Outcomes, Politicians, or the Institution Itself? Using a Czech Case to Explain Trust Formation in Different Political Institutions and the Implications for Voter Turnout	0
Families in Times of Crisis: Narratives of Family and Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Slovakia	0