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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Europe of Euromaidan: From an Economic Union to an Existential Identity	67
Ukrainization and the Effect of Russian Language on the Web: The Google Trends Case Study	63
“We Don’t Do It for the Regime, We Do It for Ourselves”: relational Politics and the 2022 Russian Antiwar Petitions	29
Minding the Resource Gap: Distributive Efficacy and Kin State Provision of Public Goods in a Multiethnic Georgian Region	22
Russia’s Minority Institutions, Ethnic Boundaries, and Social-Humanitarian Work: A Case of Collective Responsibility?	21
The Reaction of Foreign Manufacturing Corporations Operating in Russia to the New Sanctions that Followed the Outbreak of the Russia–Ukraine Military Conflict	19
Constitutional Conventions in Central Europe: Insights from Experts	17
From Patriotic Education to Militarist Indoctrination—Disciplinary Power and Silent Resistance in Russia after the Onset of the War against Ukraine	16
Is the Asia–Pacific the “Promised Land” for Russia’s Pipeline Natural Gas Exports after the Ukraine War?	16
Rethinking “Transition” in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union Through the Lens of Disability	16
Adding Insult to Injury? Status Denial, Resentment, and the Foundations of Russian Foreign Policy	15
Decolonial (Un)coupling from Russia?: The Relationship between the European Union and the Belarusian Democratic Opposition	13
Global Ranking of Expertise about Russia	12
Colonial Redux: Explaining the Dominance of Russo-Centric Narratives About the North Caucasus	11
Eurasia’s de Facto States after Russia’s Attack on Ukraine: Client Reactions to Patron Decline	10
Trust and Political Attitudes of Public Service Media Audiences in a Polarized Society: The Case of Czech Television	9
The Night Wolves: Evidence of Russian Sharp Power and Propaganda from the Victory Roads’ Itinerary	9
Takeover by Stealth: The Curious Case of Russia’s Belarus Policy	9
Upstream–Downstream Relations, Nationalism, and Environmentalism in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan	9
The Narrow Definition of Genocide & Its Role in Investigating and Prosecuting Charges of Genocide in Romania	9
Offsetting Audience Costs: Intra-Regime Bargaining during Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine	8
Russia as a Norm Entrepreneur: Crimea and Humanitarian Intervention	8
“The Last Push from the South?” Explaining the Spread of Russia’s Cossack Movement	7
Change without Change: Remaking Mental Health Advocacy in Bulgaria	6
Women on the Verge of a Conservative Revolution: Female Right-Wing Fiction from 2010s’ Poland	6

The Politics of Pseudoscience: Power and Knowledge in Contemporary Russia	6
Meaning-Making in Times of Trouble: COVID-19 Conspiracies on Russian Telegram	6
Introduction: Power and Social Hierarchies in the North Caucasus: Perceptions and Challenges	5
Silent Dissent: Exploring Russian Civic Activism as a Form of Opposition to the War in Ukraine	5
Divergent Frontiers: Contrasting Russia’s Strategic Culture Toward the Baltics and Ukraine and the Implications for NATO	5
Strong Leaders in the Former Soviet Union: Successful or Simply Authoritarian?	4
Reproductive Injustice and Genetic Counseling in the Socialist Politics of Disability	4
Impact of Industrial Change on Skills during the Economic Transition in Central and Eastern Europe	4
Varieties of Illiberal Backlash in Central Europe	4
Exploring Religiosity among Kyrgyz Migrants in the United States	4
Managing Ethnic Diversity in Post-Soviet Context: The Cases of Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan	4
Painful Moments and Realignment: Explaining Ukraine’s Foreign Policy, 2014–2022	4
Getting Central and Eastern Europe Right? How Greater Academic Pluralism Would Improve Collective Knowledge-Building in Democratization Studies	4
Local Initiatives: A Historical Analysis of the Creation of Memorial Museums of the Gulag in (Post-)Soviet Russia	4
The 2015 “Religious Turn” in Poland’s Foreign Policy and Foreign Aid	4
The Muftis and the Myths: Constructing the Russian “Church for Islam”	3
Governing the Economy Under Populist Rule: The Cases of Hungary and Poland	3
Framing the Polish-Belarusian Border in 2021. The Case of Public Service Television (TVP)	3
Precarious Organizational Professionalization and Civic Engagement in the South Caucasus	3
Tacit Skills of Return Migrants to Poland and Lithuania from the UK: Twenty Years After the May 2004 EU Enlargement	3
Electoral Overhaul Under the Principle of “Patriots Governing Hong Kong”: Implications for Pro-China Governing Coalition Re-building	3
Constructing the Self: Decolonial Legislation and the Pursuit of Ontological Security in Wartime Ukraine	3
Diminishing Justice and Third-Party Intervention: Explaining Russia’s Impartial Stance During the 2020 Karabakh War	3
Recognition of the EU’s Actorness in the Karabakh Peace Process by Azerbaijan	3
Contingent Authoritarian Regionalism: From Autocratic Regime Challenges to CSTO Collective Signaling?	3
I’m Angry! Disability Protests in Post-Communist Poland	3
From the Chicago Boys to Hjalmar Schacht: The Trajectory of the (Neo)liberal Economic Expertise in Russia	3
“Eastern Opening” Policy as Political Marketing: Populism and Hungary’s Relations with China under the Orbán Government	3
Russia’s Domestication of Disability Inclusion	3
What Does the Mufti Say? Internal and Public Debates about Islam in Russia	3
Russia’s Not-So-Secure Food Security	2
Conspiracy, Propaganda, or ‘Fake News’? How YouTube Audiences Responded to RT Coverage of COVID-19	2
Does Social Pension Help Boost Political Trust in Rural China? Exploring the Association between the New Rural Pension Scheme Enrollment and Residents’ Trust in Local Government	2
Economic Discontent and Anti-System Political Parties in the Czech Republic	2
From Emergence to Establishment: The Institutionalization of Sociology in Kyrgyzstan	2
The Dis/Articulation of Anti-Gender Politics in Eastern Europe: Introduction	2
Lost and Found: Discovery and Implications of First Elections In Post-Communist Lithuania	2
Population Dynamic and Brokers’ Credibility: Explaining the Limited Use of Electoral Clientelism in Poor Roma Communities	2
Electoral Gap and the Opportunity for Democratic Decline in Post-Communist Europe	2
Ideology Strikes Back: China’s Lessons of the Soviet Collapse, 1992–2022	2
Alla Pugacheva: Russian High-Profile Celebrity As a Mediator of Anti-War Sentiment	2
The Spoken and “Unspoken” Political Agenda in the Virtual Space of Russian Muslims	2
Revolution or Evolution? Continuity and Change in Cleavages and Issues in Czech Politics	2
Interrelation between Institutional Trust, Satisfaction of Economy, and Corruption Perception	2
Stalin’s Terror, the Gulag, and Soviet Repression in Russia’s Museums: Editorial Introduction	2
The Skeletons in Family Political Closets: Narratives of Communism in Czech and German Families	2
Loyalty over Meritocracy? Appointment of University Leaders in Russia	2
Back to the USSR? Quantifying Behavioral Strategies of Environmental NGOs in Post-2022 Russia	1
Russian “Gay Propaganda Law”: A Comprehensive Qualitative Analysis of the Legislation and Case Law	1
Spatio-Temporal Reshaping of Collective Memory in Chechnya	1

Shifting Sands: Uncovering the Struggle for World War II Memory in Kazakhstan	1
Shaping Digital Sovereignty in Russia: Actors and Debates	1
Power Transition Masquerading as Popular Reform: Reform Policy Discourse Under the Personalist Regime in Azerbaijan	1
How Do Local Party Systems Change after the Direct Election of Mayors? Analysis of the Institutional Reform in Lithuania	1
Visibility Politics of Disability Representative Civil Society Organizations Pursuing Social Justice in Russia	1
Russia’s War on Ukraine, the EU, and Its Eastern Neighborhood: Layers of Liminality	1
Pandemic Decentralization: COVID-19 and Principal–Agent Relations in Russia	1
The Geopolitical Chess Game: Ukraine’s Interactions with the EU and Russia at the Onset of the War in Donbas	1
Values Education, the Family, and Youth in Tajikistan: Building Docile Subjects	1
Highlanders and Highland Communities of the North Caucasus in the Сenter-Periphery System	1
“We Have Always Had a State”: Recognition Denial and Kazakhstan’s Ontological Security-Seeking	1
Countering National-Level Populism with Local Politics? Broadening Participatory Processes in Budapest in Illiberal Hungary	1
Between Loyalty, Chechen Nationalism, and Regime Survival: A Discourse Analysis of Kadyrov’s Telegram Channel during Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine	1
Does Anti-Corruption Enforcement Trigger Bureaucratic Slack in China? The Moderating Effect of an Administrative Reform	1
Russia’s War Against Ukraine: Context, Causes, and Consequences	1
Rooftop Exploration and the Creation of Alternative Spaces in St. Petersburg	1
Promoting or Shattering Populism: The Case of Political Comedy and Satire in Ukrainian Media	1
Protecting Their Own: Brokers and Informality in Real-Life Corrupt Transactions in the Case of Slovak Healthcare	1
Russia’s Case for War against Ukraine: Legal Claims, Political Rhetoric, and Instrumentality in a Fracturing International Order	1
Undivided Ukraine: Evidence of Rallying Effects and an Emerging National Consensus	1
Social Mobilization in Belarus - The Polish Perspective	1
(Not-So-) Radicals: Debating Moderate Salafism 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
Regulating Competition in the Digital Platform Economy: Russia and China Compared	1
Depoliticization and Necropolitics: A Critical Examination of Lukashenka’s Regime	1
Paradoxes of Green Transition and Developmentalism: The Case of EV Battery Production in Hungary	1