OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Russian History-Histoire Russe is 0. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Ruling the Soviet Countryside behind the Frontlines	4
Religion and Revolution in a Sectarian Family of Late Tsarist Russia	2
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the Beginning of World War II as Perceived by Soviet Citizens: New Sources and Interpretations	2
Introduction: Agency and Autonomy in the Russian Press across the 1917 Divide	2
Why the GDL? Why Musсovy? The Early States of Eastern Europe in Comparative Historical Discourse	1
Making an Anti-Hero or Describing a Tyrant? Postmodernism and Ivan the Terrible	1
“For Us, He Became a Bright Ray of Hope.” The Tradition of Writing Letters to the Roman Pontiff by the Soviet Believers	1
Mikhail Gorbachev and the Politics of Perestroika	1
Foreign Military Law and Mercenary Contract in Seventeenth-Century Russia: The Сase of the Smolensk War, 1632–1634	1
An Authoritative Accessory. The IMF’s Role in the 1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis	1
“A Window to the World”: Newspapers and Soviet Foreign Correspondents in the 1960s	1
The Socialist Great Divergence. Why Mikhail Gorbachev Failed Where Deng Xiaoping Succeeded	1
Back matter	1
Author’s Response	1
TEZHE: Polina Zhemchuzhina, the Soviet Cosmetics Trust, and the Revolution from Above	0
Front matter	0
Critical Acceptance of an Unloved Constitution. The Russian State Duma in the 1990s	0
From “Living Constitutionalism” to “Zombie Apocalypse”. Valery Zorkin, the Constitutional Court and Russian Authoritarianism	0
“Whomsoever He Wishes As His Successor”: Paul Bushkovitch on Succession and Absolutism in Early Modern Russia	0
Back matter	0
The Return of longue durée in Political History of the Russian Empire	0
Blindspots in the Historiography of Russia’s Colonial Rule over South Ukraine and Crimea	0
Autocracy, Nationality, Progress: Urban Space and Russian Social Investigations of the 1830s	0
Josephians and the History of the Grand Prince of Moscow Revisited	0
Forced Penance in Russian Monasteries in the Second Half of the 18th Century: From Punishment of the Body to Correction of the Soul	0

Metropolitans of All Rus’, Protectors of Moscow: the Veneration of Metropolitan Petr (14th–16th Century)	0
Front matter	0
Publisher’s Note	0
The Editorial Profession: The Rise of Private Newspaper Press in Late Imperial Russia	0
Response	0
Front matter	0
Church and State and the Conflict over the Erosion of Morals in 18th-Century Russia	0
The Comintern and the National and Colonial Question: the Roots of Soviet Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Racism Reconsidered	0
“Not a Personal Matter”: Soviet Conservative Discourse on Homosexuality in the 1960s and 1970s	0
The Power and the Glory – and the Money	0
Obedience Charters during the Reign of Ivan IV	0
“German Pamphlets, Russian Chronicles, and Ivan the Terrible”	0
Destructively Independent. The Russian Central Bank Leadership in the Runup to the 1993 Constitutional Crisis	0
Russia Was Not an Empire, Poland Was: LeDonne’s Perspective on the Polish-Lithuanian Borderlands	0
Front matter	0
Studying War in a Time of War: Russian Imperialism in the Seventeenth and Twenty-First Centuries	0
Back matter	0
At Any Cost. Gorbachev, the National Question, and His Struggle to Prevent the Country’s Disintegration	0
Front matter	0
Official Responses to Ethnic Unrest in the USSR, 1985–1991	0
“Russian Emigres in Volynia during the Reign of Ivan IV”	0
The Three Widows of Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich: Status and Political Influence in the Late 16th and Early 17th Centuries	0
The 19th Century Origins of Russia’s Fixation on Ukraine: Strengthening Global Influence and Securing Domestic Stability	0
The Moscow Strel’tsy in the Dynastic Crisis of 1689	0
F.M. Dostoevsky’s Nationalism: History, Historiography, and Politics. An Old Controversy in a Post-2022 Context	0
The Formation of Land Property Prices in the Northwestern Governorates of the Russian Empire in the Years 1865–1915	0
Rescuing Gorbachev from the Memory Hole	0
“A Unitary State of Difference?”	0
Anti-war Russophone Poetry after Feb. 24, 2022: Reinterpreting Russian History and Culture	0
In Search of One’s Self: Russian Travelers in the Balkans in 1800–1830s	0
Constitutionalism in Russia. From Special Modes of Governance to Constitutional Normalcy	0
Muscovite Claims to Rus Lands (1377–1700)	0
The Defiantly Unfashionable Dr LeDonne	0
Illustrations in Late Imperial Russian Hunting Publications: National and Imperial Traces	0
Reassessing Gorbachev	0
Novgorod Counter Histories around 1700. The Story about Ivan the Terrible’s Raid of Novgorod Reconsidered	0
The Gorbachev Moment – and Why It Was So Brief	0
Back matter	0
Gorbachev as Late-Soviet Shock Therapist	0
Periodization as Decolonization	0
Source Publication and Genealogical Research in Rossiiskaia genealogiia. Nauchnyi al’manakh: A Reflection and a Review	0
Developing a Commercial Press in Petersburg and Moscow: Institutions and Networks of Journalism under Alexander I and the Early Reign of Nicholas I	0
Russian Citizens in Alaska: between the Tsar and the Corporation	0
“The Pillars of Our Statehood:” Glasnost’, Soviet Networks, and National Mobilization	0
Escape from Political Freedom. The Constitutional Crisis of 1993 and Russia’s Political Trajectory	0
How the Field was Colonized: Russian History’s Ukrainian Blind Spot	0
“Because of Him, We Have Pizza Hut!”	0
Kopeck Journalism as a Social Profession: Upward Mobility, Service, and the Civil Society Spectrum in Late Imperial Russia	0
The Last Vikings: Russian Boat Bandits and the Formation of Princely Power	0