Post-Soviet Affairs

Papers
(The TQCC of Post-Soviet Affairs is 7. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Authoritarian succession, rules, and conflicts: Tokayev’s gambit and Kazakhstan’s bloody January of 2022 ( Qandy Qantar )65
A blind and militant attachment: Russian patriotism in comparative perspective43
If you do not change your behavior: preventive repression in Lithuania under Soviet rule39
Going jingo: a classification of the wartime positions of Russia’s “systemic opposition” parties27
Want to be heard: survey participation in Russia before and during the war27
Nepotism as structural barrier: why anti-bribery reforms fail to improve employment access in Uzbekistan27
Economic and political determinants of corporate crime in Russia: the first evidence25
Redistributive policy and redistribution preferences: the effects of the Moscow redevelopment program21
The effect of democratic participation on public goods provision: evidence from local governments in Ukraine20
The willingness of Ukrainians to fight for their own country on the eve of the 2022 Russian invasion18
“The devil that takes any form”: geopolitics of gendered and sexualized enmity in Russia’s wartime news media17
When transnational activism fails: pathways to political disengagement among Russian wartime migrants17
The holy war on reproductive rights: the Russian Orthodox Church as an anti-abortion lobbyist in contemporary Russia15
Presidential popularity and international crises: an assessment of the rally-‘round-the-flag effect in Russia14
For God, Tsar and fatherland? The church’s role in modern autocracy14
Invisible costs of exiting autocracy: subjective well-being and emotional burnout among Russian wartime migrants14
Migration assistance activism and the German humanitarian visa: framing deservingness, enacting solidarity13
Dominant party and co-ethnic vote in Russia’s ethnic republics12
Voices of the Caucasus: mapping knowledge production on the Caucasus region11
The big brothers: measuring influence of large firms on electoral mobilization in Russia10
Dissecting Putin’s regime ideology10
Russia’s failed “muscular mediation” in Nagorno-Karabakh10
Exogenous shock and Russian studies10
Perceptions of the past in the post-Soviet space10
Ethnic stacking in the Russian armed forces? Findings from a leaked dataset9
“Did it have to come to this?” three images of Vladimir Putin’s attitudes toward Ukraine8
Rainfall variability and labor allocation in Uzbekistan: the role of women’s empowerment8
The best among the connected (men): promotion in the Russian state apparatus8
Our zona : the impact of decarceration and prison closure on local communities in Kazakhstan8
State pranking: deceit and humor in Russia-West relations7
Central bank communication during the war: the case of the National Bank of Ukraine7
Central Asian regionalism in the 1990s: order, familiarization, and spotlighting7
Corruption, development, and the state in Putin’s Russia7
The populist voter trap: why regime change may not end populism Lessons from Hungary’s electoral autocracy7
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