OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Communist and Post-Communist Studies is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Soviet Memories as Part of Regional Repertoires of Usable Past in Contemporary Russia	15
Distributional Consequences of Political Freedom	15
The Birth of Collective Action Out of Influencer Culture?	10
Religion and the Protest Movement	9
Migration and Soft Power	9
The Language of the Witness, the Language of the Researcher	7
Knowledge Production and Resistance in Times of War	7
The Long Shadow Cast by Communism over Women’s Political Representation	7
Political Positioning of Religious Institutions in Comparative Perspective	7
Debt-Based Trade, Social Norms, and Informality in Uzbekistan	6
Lukashenka’s Constitutional Plebiscite and the Polarization of Belarusian Society	6
Polyphonic Peace	6
Introduction to the Special Issue on Political Participation in Post-Communist Europe during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Coercive Labor in the Cotton Harvest in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Uzbekistan	6
Communist Social Policy	5
Dear Compatriots	5
The Presence of Maoism in Mexico	5
How Does a Military Create a Tradition in a New Democracy?	5
Erratum	4
Erratum	4
Explaining Access to Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe	4
Failures in Ukrainian Arms Procurement 2014–2023	4
Legitimizing Putin’s Regime	4
From Celebrity Feminism to Feminist Anti-War Resistance	4
Social Class and Ethnocentric Worldviews	4

Social and Personal Fears of the Population of Ukraine	4
The Invention of Legacy	4
Studying the Great Patriotic War in the Shadow of the Current Crisis	3
Witnessing the Crisis	3
A Least Expected Ally?	3
Pushed against the Wall	3
Measuring Civil Society	3
The Effect of Election Observation	3
The Role of “Resources” in Regime Durability in Laos	3
Confronting Russia	3
Introduction to the Special Issue on Authoritarian Resilience of Communist Regimes in Asia	3
The Cossacks of Southern Russia in 21st-Century Memory Politics	2
The Digital Contestation of Racialized Nationhood in Russia	2
LGBT Russians and Political Environment for Activism	2
Varieties of Digital Authoritarianism	2
Organizational Strength and Authoritarian Durability in Cambodia	2
Ukrainian Researchers in a War Documentation Project	2
Introduction to the Special Issue on Class Dynamics from Socialism to Post-Socialism	2
Populism, Anti-establishment Politics, and Dimensions of Political Competition	2
The Politburos of Communist Eastern Europe	2
Socialist Egalitarianism in Everyday Life of Secondary Technical Schools in Czechoslovakia during the Normalization Period (1969–89)	2
Coronavirus Pandemic Response and Voter Choice	2
Networked Public Diplomacy	2
Gendering Violence in the Age of Anti-Genderism	2
Introduction to the Special Issue on Eurasian Continuities	2
The East Is Red…Again! How the Specters of Communism and Russia Shape Central and Eastern European Views of China	2
Between Loyalty and Opposition	2
The Foundations of Russian Statehood	2
No Limit on Terms Served?	2
Multiple Positionalities of a Researcher	2
War Memories, Monumental Activism, and Regional Identity in the Arctic Borderland	2
Class Analysis as Systemic Critique	2
Escaping the Long Shadow of Homo Sovieticus	2
The Soviet Pillar of Belonging	2
The Political Economy of Autocratization	2
Elections, Succession, and Legitimacy in Ukraine	2