OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Problems of Post-Communism 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Ukrainization and the Effect of Russian Language on the Web: The Google Trends Case Study	38
Rethinking “Transition” in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union Through the Lens of Disability	33
Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories in Southeast Europe: (Non-)Believers, Social Network Bubbles, and the Discourse of Blame	24
Russia’s Minority Institutions, Ethnic Boundaries, and Social-Humanitarian Work: A Case of Collective Responsibility?	23
Constitutional Conventions in Central Europe: Insights from Experts	22
The Reaction of Foreign Manufacturing Corporations Operating in Russia to the New Sanctions that Followed the Outbreak of the Russia–Ukraine Military Conflict	19
From Patriotic Education to Militarist Indoctrination—Disciplinary Power and Silent Resistance in Russia after the Onset of the War against Ukraine	18
Selective Censorship on Rightists and Leftists? An Observation and Analysis of Censored Social Media Posts in China	16
An Uneven Revival: Gendered Ethno-Regional Intersections of Religiousness in Kyrgyzstan	15
Russia’s Loans as a Means of Geoeconomic Competition in Africa and Latin America	15
Institutional Performance and Party Cues: Their Influence on Individual Geopolitical Preferences. The Case of Moldova (2012-2019)	13
A Collapsed Bridge: Most-Híd’s Social Embeddedness and Campaign Messages during the 2020 Parliamentary Election in Slovakia	12
Eurasia’s de Facto States after Russia’s Attack on Ukraine: Client Reactions to Patron Decline	12
Constitutional Conventions in Central Europe: Presidents in Government Formation Process	12
Politically Useful Tragedies: The Soviet Atrocities in the Historical Park(s) “Russia — My History”	11
Colonial Redux: Explaining the Dominance of Russo-Centric Narratives About the North Caucasus	11
Global Ranking of Expertise about Russia	11
COVID-19 in Central Asia: (De-)Securitization of a Health Crisis?	10
The Night Wolves: Evidence of Russian Sharp Power and Propaganda from the Victory Roads’ Itinerary	10
The Narrow Definition of Genocide & Its Role in Investigating and Prosecuting Charges of Genocide in Romania	9
Media Coverage of Labor Migrants in Russia during the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Trust and Political Attitudes of Public Service Media Audiences in a Polarized Society: The Case of Czech Television	8
Takeover by Stealth: The Curious Case of Russia’s Belarus Policy	8
Securitization of Immigration in the Czech Republic and Its Impact on the Czech Migration Policy: Experts’ Perceptions	7
Change without Change: Remaking Mental Health Advocacy in Bulgaria	7

The Politics of Pseudoscience: Power and Knowledge in Contemporary Russia	7
Offsetting Audience Costs: Intra-Regime Bargaining during Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine	7
Regime, Climate, and Region in Transition: Russian Participation in the Arctic Council	6
Russia as a Norm Entrepreneur: Crimea and Humanitarian Intervention	6
I Don’t Like It Unless It’s for Me: Voters’ Perceptions of Pork-Barrel Politics in Central and Eastern Europe	6
“The Last Push from the South?” Explaining the Spread of Russia’s Cossack Movement	5
Morphological Analysis of Narratives of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict in Western Academia and Think-Tank Community	5
Instrumentalization of the Fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Politics of Moldova	4
Silent Dissent: Exploring Russian Civic Activism as a Form of Opposition to the War in Ukraine	4
From Repression to Prevention in Central Europe: Football Anti-Hooligan Policies in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia	4
Legitimacy and Authoritarian Decline: The Internal Dynamics of Hybrid Regimes	4
Environmental Challenges and Political Regime Transition: The Role of Historical Legacies and the European Union in Eurasia	4
Sustainable Development Agendas of Regional International Organizations: The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development and the Eurasian Development Bank	4
Varieties of Illiberal Backlash in Central Europe	3
Getting Central and Eastern Europe Right? How Greater Academic Pluralism Would Improve Collective Knowledge-Building in Democratization Studies	3
Chained by One Chain: Mechanisms of Electoral Mobilization at the Local Level in the Ethnic Republics of Russia	3
Reproductive Injustice and Genetic Counseling in the Socialist Politics of Disability	3
Party Cues and Pre-Campaign Attitudes: Voting Choice in Referendums in Eastern Europe	3
Anti-Gender Politics as Discourse Coalitions: Russia’s Domestic and International Promotion of “Traditional Values”	3
Local Initiatives: A Historical Analysis of the Creation of Memorial Museums of the Gulag in (Post-)Soviet Russia	3
Why Climate? The Drivers of the European Union’s Climate Governance in its Post-Soviet East European Neighbors	3
Divergent Frontiers: Contrasting Russia’s Strategic Culture Toward the Baltics and Ukraine and the Implications for NATO	3
Strong Leaders in the Former Soviet Union: Successful or Simply Authoritarian?	3
Why It Matters What Autocrats Say: Assessing Competing Theories of Propaganda	3
Honest Broker or Status-Seeker: Russia’s Policy in Libya	3
Impact of Industrial Change on Skills during the Economic Transition in Central and Eastern Europe	3
Exploring Religiosity among Kyrgyz Migrants in the United States	3
Environmental Regionalism and International Organizations: Implications for Post-Communism	3
Managing Ethnic Diversity in Post-Soviet Context: The Cases of Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan	3
Routing or Rerouting Europe? The Civilizational Mission of Anti-Gender Politics in Eastern Europe	3
Painful Moments and Realignment: Explaining Ukraine’s Foreign Policy, 2014–2022	3
Religion, Nation, State, and Anti-Gender Politics in Georgia and Ukraine	2
Governing the Economy Under Populist Rule: The Cases of Hungary and Poland	2
Diminishing Justice and Third-Party Intervention: Explaining Russia’s Impartial Stance During the 2020 Karabakh War	2
I’m Angry! Disability Protests in Post-Communist Poland	2
The Muftis and the Myths: Constructing the Russian “Church for Islam”	2
The 2015 “Religious Turn” in Poland’s Foreign Policy and Foreign Aid	2
The Symphony is Over? The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Russian Orthodox Church–State Relations	2
“Eastern Opening” Policy as Political Marketing: Populism and Hungary’s Relations with China under the Orbán Government	2
From the Chicago Boys to Hjalmar Schacht: The Trajectory of the (Neo)liberal Economic Expertise in Russia	2
Tacit Skills of Return Migrants to Poland and Lithuania from the UK: Twenty Years After the May 2004 EU Enlargement	2
How to Defend Romania?: Identifying Legacy and Institutional Impediments	2
Visualizations of Soviet Repression and the Gulag in Russian Museums: Common Exhibition Models	2
Framing the Polish-Belarusian Border in 2021. The Case of Public Service Television (TVP)	2
Antigovernment Protests and Commitment to Democratic Principles	2
Recognition of the EU’s Actorness in the Karabakh Peace Process by Azerbaijan	2
What Does the Mufti Say? Internal and Public Debates about Islam in Russia	2
Russia’s Domestication of Disability Inclusion	2
Retrogressive Mobilization in the 2018 “Referendum for Family” in Romania	2
Electoral Success of Independents under Authoritarianism: Evidence from Russia’s Local Elections, 2014–2018	1

Dense Networks, Ethnic Minorities, and Electoral Mobilization in Contemporary Russia	1
Electoral Gap and the Opportunity for Democratic Decline in Post-Communist Europe	1
Conspiracy, Propaganda, or ‘Fake News’? How YouTube Audiences Responded to RT Coverage of COVID-19	1
Evading Transparency, Doubting Democracy, Dreaming Big: Grassroots Perspectives on Science Governance in Russia	1
Russia’s Not-So-Secure Food Security	1
Protecting Their Own: Brokers and Informality in Real-Life Corrupt Transactions in the Case of Slovak Healthcare	1
The Dis/Articulation of Anti-Gender Politics in Eastern Europe: Introduction	1
Securitization of Higher Education Expansion in Authoritarian States: Uzbekistan’s Seemingly “Elite” Tertiary System	1
Shifting Sands: Uncovering the Struggle for World War II Memory in Kazakhstan	1
Economic Discontent and Anti-System Political Parties in the Czech Republic	1
Alla Pugacheva: Russian High-Profile Celebrity As a Mediator of Anti-War Sentiment	1
Stalin’s Terror, the Gulag, and Soviet Repression in Russia’s Museums: Editorial Introduction	1
Interrelation between Institutional Trust, Satisfaction of Economy, and Corruption Perception	1
The Politics of Giving Voice: Media Framing of Extremist Groups in the 2010 Pride Parade in Serbia	1
Anti-Establishment Parties and Voters’ Responses in Post-Communist Europe	1
Russia’s Case for War against Ukraine: Legal Claims, Political Rhetoric, and Instrumentality in a Fracturing International Order	1
“What We Murmur behind Their Backs”: Hidden Transcripts of the North Korean Ruling Elite	1
The Geopolitical Chess Game: Ukraine’s Interactions with the EU and Russia at the Onset of the War in Donbas	1
When the Past Is Not Another Country: The Battlefields of History in Russia	1
The Formation of Religious Authority Among Central Asian Mullahs in Russia: Questions of Duty and Loyalty in a Muslim Migration Context	1
Social Mobilization in Belarus - The Polish Perspective	1
Values Education, the Family, and Youth in Tajikistan: Building Docile Subjects	1
Shaping Digital Sovereignty in Russia: Actors and Debates	1
Before and After the Fall of Communism: The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and Soviet Foreign Policy in 1939–1940 in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian Textbooks	1
Public Opinion toward Asylum Seekers in Post-Communist Europe: A Comparative Perspective	1
Electoral Overhaul Under the Principle of “Patriots Governing Hong Kong”: Implications for Pro-China Governing Coalition Re-building	1
The Spoken and “Unspoken” Political Agenda in the Virtual Space of Russian Muslims	1
Part of the Problem? The Eurasian Economic Union and Environmental Challenges in the Former Soviet Union	1
Ideology Strikes Back: China’s Lessons of the Soviet Collapse, 1992–2022	1
Chechen Nation-Building under Kadyrov: A Belated “ Korenizatsiya” ?	1
(Not-So-) Radicals: Debating Moderate Salafism in Russia	1
Undivided Ukraine: Evidence of Rallying Effects and an Emerging National Consensus	1