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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Anti-Gender Politics as Discourse Coalitions: Russia’s Domestic and International Promotion of “Traditional Values”	30
Sustainable Development Agendas of Regional International Organizations: The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development and the Eurasian Development Bank	24
Environmental Challenges and Political Regime Transition: The Role of Historical Legacies and the European Union in Eurasia	23
Varieties of Illiberal Backlash in Central Europe	21
Regime, Climate, and Region in Transition: Russian Participation in the Arctic Council	18
National Identity in Time of War: Ukraine after the Russian Aggressions of 2014 and 2022	16
Environmental Regionalism and International Organizations: Implications for Post-Communism	16
Morphological Analysis of Narratives of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict in Western Academia and Think-Tank Community	15
Slums amidst Ghost Cities: Incentive and Information Problems in China’s Urbanization	15
Retrogressive Mobilization in the 2018 “Referendum for Family” in Romania	14
Where the Personal is (Geo)Political: Performing Queer Visibility in Georgia in the Context of EU Association	12
The Nexus between Authoritarian and Environmental Regionalism: An Analysis of China’s Driving Role in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization	12
Russian Border Controls in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Social, Political, and Economic Implications	12
Religion, Nation, State, and Anti-Gender Politics in Georgia and Ukraine	11
Foreign Policy, National Interests, and Environmental Positioning: Russia’s Post Paris Climate Change Actions, Discourse, and Engagement	11
Sustainable Development and Actors of Regional Environmental Governance: Eurasia at the Crossroads	11
“Hieroglyphs of Protest”: Internet Memes and the Protest Movement in Russia	11
Routing or Rerouting Europe? The Civilizational Mission of Anti-Gender Politics in Eastern Europe	10
Populism on the Semi-Periphery: Some Considerations for Understanding the Anti-Corruption Discourse in Romania	10
Part of the Problem? The Eurasian Economic Union and Environmental Challenges in the Former Soviet Union	10
Pandemic Decentralization: COVID-19 and Principal–Agent Relations in Russia	9
Regional Memories of the Great Terror: Representation of the Gulag in Russian Kraevedcheskii Museums	9
The Rise of Populists and Decline of Others: Explanation of Changes in Party Support in the Czech Republic	9
When the Past Is Not Another Country: The Battlefields of History in Russia	8
Mimicking the Mad Printer: Legislating Illiberalism in Post-Soviet Eurasia	7

Why Climate? The Drivers of the European Union’s Climate Governance in its Post-Soviet East European Neighbors	7
Donbas Conflict: How Russia’s Trojan Horse Failed and Forced Moscow to Alter Its Strategy	7
The End of “Putin’s Empire?” Ontological Problems of Russian Imperialism in the Context of the War against Ukraine, 2022	7
Post-Communist Countries’ Participation in Global Forums on Climate Action	7
Legitimacy and Authoritarian Decline: The Internal Dynamics of Hybrid Regimes	6
From Trivialized Neo-Nazis to Parliament: Explaining the Electoral Success of the Extreme Right Party ĽSNS in Slovakia	5
Enhancing Research on Authoritarian Regimes through Detailed Comparisons of China and Vietnam	5
The Dis/Articulation of Anti-Gender Politics in Eastern Europe: Introduction	5
Why It Matters What Autocrats Say: Assessing Competing Theories of Propaganda	5
Eclipsing Stalin: The GULAG History Museum in Moscow as a Manifestation of Russia’s Official Memory of Soviet Repression	4
Love the Tender: ProZorro and Anti-Corruption Reforms after the Euromaidan Revolution	4
Media Responses to Domestic Violence: Discussing Volodina v. Russia and the Domestic Violence Law	4
Painful Moments and Realignment: Explaining Ukraine’s Foreign Policy, 2014–2022	4
Challenging the Rule of Law in Romania: The Metamorphosis of Political Discourse towards Populism	4
Understanding Russia’s Brain Drain in the 2010s	4
Why Didn’t Ukraine Fight for Crimea? Evidence from Declassified National Security and Defense Council Proceedings	4
COVID-19 and Azerbaijan: Is the System Resilient Enough to Withstand the Perfect Storm?	4
Performative Diplomacy and Popular Geopolitics: The Case of Russian Anti-COVID Assistance to Italy	3
The Night Wolves: Evidence of Russian Sharp Power and Propaganda from the Victory Roads’ Itinerary	3
Anti-Establishment Parties and Voters’ Responses in Post-Communist Europe	3
I Don’t Like It Unless It’s for Me: Voters’ Perceptions of Pork-Barrel Politics in Central and Eastern Europe	3
Lessons that Lead to War: Foreign Policy Learning and Military Escalation in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict	3
Western Estimates of Russian Military Capabilities and the Invasion of Ukraine	3
COVID-19 in Central Asia: (De-)Securitization of a Health Crisis?	3
Politically Useful Tragedies: The Soviet Atrocities in the Historical Park(s) “Russia — My History”	3
Electoral Success of Independents under Authoritarianism: Evidence from Russia’s Local Elections, 2014–2018	3
“Silencing” or “Magnifying” Memories? Stalin’s Repressions and the 1990s in Russian Museums	3
Public Opinion Formation and Group Identity: The Politics of National Identity Salience in Post-Crimea Russia	3
The Politics of Privatization, Quality of Governance, and Financial Development in Eastern Europe	3
COVID-19 as a Test for Regional Integration Resilience in the Eurasian Economic Union	3
Economic Discontent and Anti-System Political Parties in the Czech Republic	3
Southeast Asia in Kazakhstan’s Omnidirectional Hedging Strategy	2
Selective Censorship on Rightists and Leftists? An Observation and Analysis of Censored Social Media Posts in China	2
Russia’s Loans as a Means of Geoeconomic Competition in Africa and Latin America	2
Regulating Competition in the Digital Platform Economy: Russia and China Compared	2
Media Coverage of Labor Migrants in Russia during the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Politicisation of Immigration in Central and Eastern Europe: Evidence from Plenary Debates in Two Countries	2
Constitutional Conventions in Central Europe: Presidents in Government Formation Process	2
Navalny’s Digital Dissidents: A New Dataset on a Russian Opposition Movement	2
Securitization of Higher Education Expansion in Authoritarian States: Uzbekistan’s Seemingly “Elite” Tertiary System	2
The Politics of the Past: Polish-Soviet and Polish-Russian Efforts at Historical Reconciliation	2
Contested “Logic of Anarchy” in the Post-Soviet Space: The “Near Abroad” Faces Russia’s Power	2
Dense Networks, Ethnic Minorities, and Electoral Mobilization in Contemporary Russia	2
Public Opinion toward Asylum Seekers in Post-Communist Europe: A Comparative Perspective	2
Delegated Rebellions as an Unwanted Byproduct of Subnational Elites’ Miscalculation: A Case Study of the Donbas	2
An Uneven Revival: Gendered Ethno-Regional Intersections of Religiousness in Kyrgyzstan	2
Institutional Performance and Party Cues: Their Influence on Individual Geopolitical Preferences. The Case of Moldova (2012-2019)	2
In Search of Lost Time? Decommunization in Ukraine, 2014 – 2020	2
Honest Broker or Status-Seeker: Russia’s Policy in Libya	2
Party Cues and Pre-Campaign Attitudes: Voting Choice in Referendums in Eastern Europe	2

Exit or Voice: Abstention and Support for Populist Radical Right Parties in Central and Eastern Europe	2
Visualizations of Soviet Repression and the Gulag in Russian Museums: Common Exhibition Models	1
Local Initiatives: A Historical Analysis of the Creation of Memorial Museums of the Gulag in (Post-)Soviet Russia	1
From Decentralization to Coordination: The Evolution of Russian Paradiplomacy (1991 – 2021)	1
Chained by One Chain: Mechanisms of Electoral Mobilization at the Local Level in the Ethnic Republics of Russia	1
Russia’s Domestication of Disability Inclusion	1
A Collapsed Bridge: Most-Híd’s Social Embeddedness and Campaign Messages during the 2020 Parliamentary Election in Slovakia	1
Antigovernment Protests and Commitment to Democratic Principles	1
The Muftis and the Myths: Constructing the Russian “Church for Islam”	1
“What We Murmur behind Their Backs”: Hidden Transcripts of the North Korean Ruling Elite	1
Change without Change: Remaking Mental Health Advocacy in Bulgaria	1
Russia’s Case for War against Ukraine: Legal Claims, Political Rhetoric, and Instrumentality in a Fracturing International Order	1
Gendered Moral Geopolitics in Hungary: Continuities and Discontinuities since the 1950s in the Symbolic Gender Politics of the Orbán Regime	1
Interrelation between Institutional Trust, Satisfaction of Economy, and Corruption Perception	1
How Autocracies Disrupt Unsanctioned Information Flows: The Role of State Power and Social Capital in North Korea	1
Natural Allies? External Governance and Environmental Civil Society Organizations in the EU’s Eastern Partnership	1
From Repression to Prevention in Central Europe: Football Anti-Hooligan Policies in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia	1
Russia’s Response to COVID-19: Leveraging Pre-Pandemic Data to Theorize about Public Approval	1
Russia’s War on Ukraine, the EU, and Its Eastern Neighborhood: Layers of Liminality	1
Governing the Economy Under Populist Rule: The Cases of Hungary and Poland	1
The Geopolitical Chess Game: Ukraine’s Interactions with the EU and Russia at the Onset of the War in Donbas	1
Russia as a Norm Entrepreneur: Crimea and Humanitarian Intervention	1
Playing Near the Edge: An Analysis of Ukrainian Border Youths’ Engagement with the Euromaidan	1
Sons of the Soil or Servants of the Empire? Profiling the Guardians of Separatism in Abkhazia and South Ossetia	1
Theorizing the Nature of Power in Central Asia. Introduction to the Special Issue	1
More Remote Yet More Connected? Physical Accessibility and New International Contacts in Tajikistan’s Pamirs Since 1991	1
Chekists Penetrate the Transition Economy: The KGB’s Self-Reforms during Perestroika	1
Public Perceptions of Russia’s Gulag Memory Museums	1
Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories in Southeast Europe: (Non-)Believers, Social Network Bubbles, and the Discourse of Blame	1
What Explains Individualism in North Korea?	1
Stalin’s Terror, the Gulag, and Soviet Repression in Russia’s Museums: Editorial Introduction	1
Undivided Ukraine: Evidence of Rallying Effects and an Emerging National Consensus	1
Varieties of Resilience and Side Effects of Disobedience: Cross-National Patterns of Survival during the Coronavirus Pandemic	1