OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Communist and Post-Communist Studies is 1. 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
Solidarity and Implications of a Leaderless Movement in Hong Kong	26
Five Demands and (Not Quite) Beyond	23
Practicing Autonomy within a Communist State	11
Killing Politics Softly	10
Legitimizing Putin’s Regime	8
Varieties of Digital Authoritarianism	7
China’s Power in Its Strategic Energy Partnership with the Eurasian Economic Union	7
Europe in Georgia’s Identity Discourse	6
The Role of “Resources” in Regime Durability in Laos	6
Coercive Labor in the Cotton Harvest in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Uzbekistan	6
Friendship in Chinese International Relations	5
Anti-Communism as Ideology	5
Who Is Purged? Determinants of Elite Purges in North Korea	5
The Extended Family	5
“I Have Always thought that, If I Am Poor, I’m Also Supposed to Study Poorly”	5
The Political Economy of Autocratization	5
Explaining Public Participation in Anti-authoritarian Protests in Hong Kong	5
Deepening the State	5
Using the Pandemic as a Pretext	5
The “Techno-Turn” of China’s Official Discourse on Nationalism	4
Class Analysis as Systemic Critique	4
Introduction to the Special Issue on Eurasian Continuities	4
Mapping the Territorial Distribution of Voter Turnout in Czech Local Elections (1994–2018)	4
Social Class and Ethnocentric Worldviews	4
LGBT Russians and Political Environment for Activism	4

To Compete or to Cooperate	4
Coronavirus Pandemic Response and Voter Choice	4
The Modern Regency	4
Contending Chinese Perspectives on China-Russia Military Partnership	4
Chinism and the Future of the World	4
What Is behind Anti-Corruption?	4
Transformation of Civil Society in Poland under the United Right Government	4
The Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic Perceptions on Voter Turnout in the Czech Republic	3
Understanding Weak Local Governance in the Neoliberal City through the Case of Skopje 2014	3
Class, Conflict, and Power between Hegemony and Critical Knowledge	3
Against Putin and Corruption, for Navalny and the “Revolution”?	3
Populism, Anti-establishment Politics, and Dimensions of Political Competition	3
Authoritarian Hegemonic Masculinities and Gendered Rhetorics of the Protest	3
Emotional Splits and Psychologization	3
Organizational Strength and Authoritarian Durability in Cambodia	3
Common-Pool Resource Depletion and Dictatorship	2
History Repeating Itself	2
Orthodox Conservatism and the Refugee Crisis in Bulgaria and Moldova	2
Socialist Egalitarianism in Everyday Life of Secondary Technical Schools in Czechoslovakia during the Normalization Period (1969–89)	2
Socialism and the Modernization Hypothesis	2
Soviet Memories as Part of Regional Repertoires of Usable Past in Contemporary Russia	2
How to Train Your Dragon	2
Market under the Radar	2
Songs for Ordinary People	2
Confronting Russia	2
In the Name of “Freedom” and “Democracy”	2
The Invention of Legacy	2
From Constitutional Identity to the Identity of the Constitution	2
Informal Network as a Coping Strategy in the Climate–Livestock Relationship	2
Political Positioning of Religious Institutions in Comparative Perspective	2
Closer to Citizens or Ticking Boxes? Political Parties and Participatory Practices in Hungary	2
Self-Criticism in Post-Communist Times	2
A Least Expected Ally?	1
The Agency of Recipient Countries in Transnational Policy-Related Knowledge Transfer	1
The Democratic Claims of Communist Regime Leaders	1
The Politburos of Communist Eastern Europe	1
Compliant Subjects?	1
Three Levels of Authoritarian Legitimacy	1
Escaping the Long Shadow of Homo Sovieticus	1
Displays of Statehood	1
How Does a Military Create a Tradition in a New Democracy?	1
Survival or Crisis? Funding Distribution from Grant-Making Foundations to Grassroots Social Organizations in China	1
Elections, Succession, and Legitimacy in Ukraine	1
Securitization in the Shadow of Armed Conflict	1
The East Is Red…Again! How the Specters of Communism and Russia Shape Central and Eastern European Views of China	1
Exploiting Ideology and Making Higher Education Serve Vietnam’s Authoritarian Regime	1
Policing Protest in Russia	1
The Effect of Election Observation	1
Generational and Geographic Effects on Collective Memory of the USSR	1
Introduction to the Special Issue on Authoritarian Resilience of Communist Regimes in Asia	1

Founding Myth, Institutional Adaptation, and Regime Resilience in China	1
“Framing” and “Screening” the Gulag	1
Targets and Resources	1
Countering the “Sweep Effect”	1
Lukashenka’s Constitutional Plebiscite and the Polarization of Belarusian Society	1
Studying the Great Patriotic War in the Shadow of the Current Crisis	1
China’s Deng Development Model	1
Religion and the Protest Movement	1
Between Loyalty and Opposition	1
No Limit on Terms Served?	1
Pushed against the Wall	1
Explaining Access to Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe	1
Strengths and Vulnerabilities of Surviving Asian Communist Regimes from a Historical, Regional, and Holistic Approach	1
Communist Legacy, Anti-Elite Sentiments, and Modernization Theory	1
“Five Unknown Facts about…”	1
Neoliberalization and Politics of Shaming	1
Parties without Power	1
Martyrological in Form, Military-Patriotic in Content	1
Migration and Soft Power	1
Do Successor Parties Influence Public Attitudes toward the Past? Evidence from Young Democracies	1
Kočner’s Judges	1