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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Solidarity and Implications of a Leaderless Movement in Hong Kong	23
Five Demands and (Not Quite) Beyond	22
“Democracy Is Not for Everyone”	12
Practicing Autonomy within a Communist State	9
Killing Politics Softly	7
Varieties of Digital Authoritarianism	6
Legitimizing Putin’s Regime	6
The Extended Family	5
The Role of “Resources” in Regime Durability in Laos	5
China’s Power in Its Strategic Energy Partnership with the Eurasian Economic Union	5
Anti-Communism as Ideology	5
Explaining Public Participation in Anti-authoritarian Protests in Hong Kong	5
Europe in Georgia’s Identity Discourse	5
The “Techno-Turn” of China’s Official Discourse on Nationalism	4
To Compete or to Cooperate	4
The Political Economy of Autocratization	4
Trends in Socioeconomic Health Inequalities in Kazakhstan	4
Coercive Labor in the Cotton Harvest in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Uzbekistan	4
Deepening the State	4
Friendship in Chinese International Relations	4
Class Analysis as Systemic Critique	4
“I Have Always thought that, If I Am Poor, I’m Also Supposed to Study Poorly”	4
Against Putin and Corruption, for Navalny and the “Revolution”?	3
Understanding Weak Local Governance in the Neoliberal City through the Case of Skopje 2014	3
Organizational Strength and Authoritarian Durability in Cambodia	3

Class, Conflict, and Power between Hegemony and Critical Knowledge	3
Contending Chinese Perspectives on China-Russia Military Partnership	3
LGBT Russians and Political Environment for Activism	3
Coronavirus Pandemic Response and Voter Choice	3
The Modern Regency	3
Social Class and Ethnocentric Worldviews	3
Chinism and the Future of the World	3
Using the Pandemic as a Pretext	3
Authoritarian Hegemonic Masculinities and Gendered Rhetorics of the Protest	3
Market under the Radar	2
Legitimation of Private Property in the Means of Production in Ukraine	2
Return of the Local Democracy to the Territory of the Military Training Areas (Case Study the Czech Republic)	2
Political Positioning of Religious Institutions in Comparative Perspective	2
Introduction to the Special Issue on Eurasian Continuities	2
Small-Time Clientelism	2
Common-Pool Resource Depletion and Dictatorship	2
From Constitutional Identity to the Identity of the Constitution	2
Orthodox Conservatism and the Refugee Crisis in Bulgaria and Moldova	2
Songs for Ordinary People	2
Emotional Splits and Psychologization	2
Closer to Citizens or Ticking Boxes? Political Parties and Participatory Practices in Hungary	2
Who Is Purged? Determinants of Elite Purges in North Korea	2
History Repeating Itself	2
Combating the Threats of Cybercrimes in Russia	2
Transformation of Civil Society in Poland under the United Right Government	2
What Is behind Anti-Corruption?	2
Electoral System Incentives for a Party-Serving Personal Vote	2
Empire Loyalism and Nationalism in Ukraine and Ireland	2
Populism, Anti-establishment Politics, and Dimensions of Political Competition	2
Confronting Russia	1
Socialism and the Modernization Hypothesis	1
Policing Protest in Russia	1
The Effect of Election Observation	1
The Democratic Claims of Communist Regime Leaders	1
Founding Myth, Institutional Adaptation, and Regime Resilience in China	1
Social Antinomies of Linguistic Consciousness	1
The Strange Case of Welfare Chauvinism in Eastern Europe	1
Neoliberalization and Politics of Shaming	1
Escaping the Long Shadow of Homo Sovieticus	1
Parties without Power	1
Religion and the Protest Movement	1
Mapping the Territorial Distribution of Voter Turnout in Czech Local Elections (1994–2018)	1
Direct Actions in the Czech Environmental Movement	1
Introduction	1
Strengths and Vulnerabilities of Surviving Asian Communist Regimes from a Historical, Regional, and Holistic Approach	1
Compliant Subjects?	1
How to Train Your Dragon	1
Targets and Resources	1
Informal Network as a Coping Strategy in the Climate–Livestock Relationship	1
The Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic Perceptions on Voter Turnout in the Czech Republic	1

Survival or Crisis? Funding Distribution from Grant-Making Foundations to Grassroots Social Organizations in China	1
China’s Deng Development Model	1
The Invention of Legacy	1
Securitization in the Shadow of Armed Conflict	1
Kočner’s Judges	1
A Least Expected Ally?	1
The Agency of Recipient Countries in Transnational Policy-Related Knowledge Transfer	1
Exploiting Ideology and Making Higher Education Serve Vietnam’s Authoritarian Regime	1
Communist Legacy, Anti-Elite Sentiments, and Modernization Theory	1
Generational and Geographic Effects on Collective Memory of the USSR	1
“Framing” and “Screening” the Gulag	1
Countering the “Sweep Effect”	1
The Influence of Contextual and Individual Factors on Entrepreneurial Intentions among Youth in Transitional Rural Slovakia	1
Lukashenka’s Constitutional Plebiscite and the Polarization of Belarusian Society	1
Do Successor Parties Influence Public Attitudes toward the Past? Evidence from Young Democracies	1
Pushed against the Wall	1