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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Soviet Memories as Part of Regional Repertoires of Usable Past in Contemporary Russia	12
From Restricted to Digital Fieldwork	11
Distributional Consequences of Political Freedom	11
The Birth of Collective Action Out of Influencer Culture?	11
Forged in Crises	10
From Division to Democracy	8
The Long Shadow Cast by Communism over Women’s Political Representation	7
Coercive Labor in the Cotton Harvest in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Uzbekistan	6
Religion and the Protest Movement	6
Classification and Fragmentation Under Communism	6
The Language of the Witness, the Language of the Researcher	6
From Object of Trauma to Subject of History	6
Political Positioning of Religious Institutions in Comparative Perspective	6
Dear Compatriots	5
Knowledge Production and Resistance in Times of War	5
Introduction to the Special Issue on Political Participation in Post-Communist Europe during the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
How Does a Military Create a Tradition in a New Democracy?	5
Lukashenka’s Constitutional Plebiscite and the Polarization of Belarusian Society	5
Polyphonic Peace	5
Debt-Based Trade, Social Norms, and Informality in Uzbekistan	5
Transformations in Russian Activism	4
From Celebrity Feminism to Feminist Anti-War Resistance	4
The Evolution of Women’s Activism in Russia	4
The Invention of Legacy	4
A Least Expected Ally?	4

Communist Social Policy	4
Failures in Ukrainian Arms Procurement 2014–2023	4
Social and Personal Fears of the Population of Ukraine	4
Introduction to the Special Issue on Authoritarian Resilience of Communist Regimes in Asia	4
Pushed against the Wall	4
Erratum	4
Proxy Games and Freezing Conflict	4
We Are All Netnographers Now? Fieldwork in an Age of Participatory Warfare	4
Through Their Eyes	4
“If You Fly to the Sky, I Can Catch You by Your Feet”	4
The Image of the Communist Ideo-Political Legacy	3
Measuring Civil Society	3
The Defending “Defenders”	3
Witnessing the Crisis	3
The Role of “Resources” in Regime Durability in Laos	3
Socialist Egalitarianism in Everyday Life of Secondary Technical Schools in Czechoslovakia during the Normalization Period (1969–89)	3
Multiple Positionalities of a Researcher	3
Introduction	3
Patriotic Education in China	3
Studying the Great Patriotic War in the Shadow of the Current Crisis	3
Nothing Was Available and Everything Was Possible	3
The Cossacks of Southern Russia in 21st-Century Memory Politics	2
Organizational Strength and Authoritarian Durability in Cambodia	2
Between Loyalty and Opposition	2
A Not-So-Simple Noodle Story	2
Assessing Socialist Past and Sociodemographic Present	2
Introduction to the Special Issue on Eurasian Continuities	2
Escaping the Long Shadow of Homo Sovieticus	2
Ukrainian Researchers in a War Documentation Project	2
Networked Public Diplomacy	2
The Foundations of Russian Statehood	2
Researching Russia with Digital Trace Data	2
Elections, Succession, and Legitimacy in Ukraine	2
War and Eurasia’s Ethnic Boundaries	2
Sino-Russian Relations from the Perspective of National Role Theory	2
The Soviet Pillar of Belonging	2
Populism, Anti-establishment Politics, and Dimensions of Political Competition	2
The Politburos of Communist Eastern Europe	2
The Digital Contestation of Racialized Nationhood in Russia	2
No Limit on Terms Served?	2
Worries About Workers	2
Gendering Violence in the Age of Anti-Genderism	2
The Way Home, or the Way to Prison? Gender Legacies and Anti-War Protest in Russia	2
Social Media Listening Platforms in Wartime Russia	2
War Memories, Monumental Activism, and Regional Identity in the Arctic Borderland	2
Communist Legacy, Anti-Elite Sentiments, and Modernization Theory	1
Explaining Support for Russian Narratives about the Events in Ukraine among Japanese Scholars and Intellectuals in 2014–19	1
Define a Dragon	1
Displays of Statehood	1
Informal Network as a Coping Strategy in the Climate–Livestock Relationship	1

Language Activism in Kazakhstan	1
“Competitive Rent-Seeking” in the Kim Jong Un Era of North Korea	1
International Policy Transfer in Post-Communist States	1
Informality, Business Environment, and Legal Reform in Weak Rule-of-Law Context	1
Reframing Reflexivity	1
A Bottom-Up Analysis of Societal Belief in Judicial Independence in Russia	1
Finding Space for Activism	1
Supporting the War in Ukraine Compared to the Annexation of Crimea in Russia’s Bureaucratic Texts	1
Using the Pandemic as a Pretext	1
Institutionalizing Electoral Malpractice	1
Constitutional Amendments, Democratic Resilience, and the Threat of Political Regime Change	1
Russian Foreign Policy Research and War in Ukraine	1
ICT Use and Entrepreneurial Mobilization of Chinese Grassroots Activists in and beyond Cyberspace	1
Introduction to the Special Issue on Protest and Authoritarian Reaction in Belarus	1
Collective Action, Memories of 1989, and Social Media	1
Gender Egalitarianism of Recent Emigrants from Russia	1
Targets and Resources	1
“We Will Die as Free People”	1
Everyday Bribery in North Korea as Moral Economy	1
Media Literacy and the Interpretation of the War—A Study of Uzbekistani Youth’s Perceptions on the Russia-Ukraine War	1
The Party Politics of EU Politicization on Social Media	1
Immersion and Distancing	1