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
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
The big brothers: measuring influence of large firms on electoral mobilization in Russia10
Ethnic stacking in the Russian armed forces? Findings from a leaked dataset9
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
“Did it have to come to this?” three images of Vladimir Putin’s attitudes toward Ukraine8
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
State pranking: deceit and humor in Russia-West relations7
Central bank communication during the war: the case of the National Bank of Ukraine7
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