Post-Soviet Affairs

Papers
(The TQCC of Post-Soviet Affairs is 5. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Activism in exile: how Russian environmentalists maintain voice after exit32
Building voting coalitions in electoral authoritarian regimes: a case study of the 2020 constitutional reform in Russia19
Branching out or inwards? The logic of fractals in Russian studies17
Omnibalancing in China-Russia relations: regime survival and the specter of domestic threats as an impetus for bilateral alignment17
The art of partial commitment: the politics of military assistance to Ukraine16
From mercenary to legitimate actor? Russian discourses on private military companies15
Putinism beyond Putin: the political ideas of Nikolai Patrushev and Sergei Naryshkin in 2006–2015
Composition of the ruling elite, incentives for productive usage of rents, and prospects for Russia’s limited access order13
Presidential popularity and international crises: an assessment of the rally-‘round-the-flag effect in Russia12
Making sense of the January 2022 protests in Kazakhstan: failing legitimacy, culture of protests, and elite readjustments12
Political foundations of state support for civil society: analysis of the distribution of presidential grants in Russia11
A blind and militant attachment: Russian patriotism in comparative perspective11
Authoritarian succession, rules, and conflicts: Tokayev’s gambit and Kazakhstan’s bloody January of 2022 ( Qandy Qantar )9
Fear of punishment as a driver of survey misreporting and item non-response in Russia and its neighbors9
Still winners and losers? Studying public opinion’s geopolitical preferences in the association agreement countries (Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine)9
Effects of a coup attempt on public attitudes under autocracy: quasi-experimental evidence from Russia8
“We don’t abandon our own people”: public rhetoric of Russia’s governors during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine8
Truth with a Z: disinformation, war in Ukraine, and Russia’s contradictory discourse of imperial identity8
Is Putin’s popularity (still) real? A cautionary note on using list experiments to measure popularity in authoritarian regimes7
The buck stops elsewhere: authoritarian resilience and the politics of responsibility for COVID-19 in Russia7
Exogenous shock and Russian studies7
Who cares about sanctions? Observations from annual reports of European firms6
Ethnic intermarriage in Russia: the tale of four cities6
On double miss in Russian studies: can social and political psychology help?6
Beyond “hybrid warfare”: a digital exploration of Russia’s entrepreneurs of influence6
Antisemitism in Russia: evaluating its decline and potential resurgence6
“Killing nature—killing us”: “Cultural threats” as a fundamental framework for analyzing Indigenous movements against mining in Siberia and the Russian North5
The geopolitical orientations of ordinary Belarusians: survey evidence from early 20205
Dissecting Putin’s regime ideology5
Belarusian public opinion and the 2020 uprising5
Social sanctions and violent mobilization: lessons from the Crimean Tatar case5
The politics of bank failures in Russia5
Dominant party and co-ethnic vote in Russia’s ethnic republics5
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