East European Politics and Societies

Article	Citations
Actions Speak Louder Than Words? The Untapped Potential of V4 Parliaments in EU Affairs	16
From Dissidence to Heroism: Constructing an Ideal Post-Communist Identity in the Czech Republic	14
Political Will and Media Law: A Poland Case Analysis	11
In Need of a Leader: Bolesław Piasecki’s Charismatic Leadership in the 1930s	8
Nationalist versus Populist Constructions of “the People”: Eastern Europe and Latin America in Comparative Perspective	7
From the Bronze Soldier to the “Bloody Marshal”: Monument Wars and Russia’s Aesthetic Vulnerability in Estonia and the Czech Republic	6
Bringing the Virus Back Home: Media Representations of Ukrainian Labour Migrants in a Time of Pandemic	5
Oligarch Moralities of Wealth: The Russian Case	5
Preaching the “Traditional Family” in the Romanian Parliament: The Political Stakes and Meanings of a Hegemonic Narrative	5
“Secret Services Are Meant To Serve”: State Violence in the Autobiographic Memory of Secret Police Officers in Communist Poland	5
The Moral Matrix of Capitalism: Insights from Central and Eastern Europe	4
Unsettling Borderlands: The Population Exchange and the Polish Minority in Soviet Belarus, 1944–1947	4
Historical Sociology in Poland: Transformations of the Uses of the Past	4
“A Disease Like Any Other”: Awareness-Raising and Neuro-tivization of Depression in Poland	4
The Unintended Costs and Unfulfilled Promises of Concurrent Elections: A Natural Experiment on Turnout and Invalid Voting	4
Václav Havel: Posthumous Reclamation of a National Hero?	4
Differentiated European Integration of Ukraine in Comparative Perspective	4
Populist Juggling with Fear: The Case of Hungary	3
How Do Bigger and Smaller Cities Manage Migration? Ukrainian War Refugees in Polish Cities	3
Editors’ Note	3
Civic Engagement and Its Disparate Goals in Bosnia-Herzegovina	3
Between Ideological Loyalty and Political Adaptation: The “Agrarian Question” in the Development of Bulgarian Social Democracy, 1891–1912	3
Home as an Uncanny Site of Violence in Polish-Jewish Autobiographical Texts on the Holocaust	3
Shrinking, Shifting, and Strengthening: The Dynamics and Diversity of Civic Activism in Poland	3
Savoring Polishness: History and Tradition in Contemporary Polish Food Media	3

Different Meanings of Proper Nutrition: The Sociopolitical Dynamics of the Relationship between Body and State in the 1970s and 2010s Poland	2
The Logic of the Punisher: Retrospective Voting and Hyper-Accountability in Lithuania	2
Gender Differences in Public Issue Salience: Evidence from Czechia	2
Sustainable Consumption Consciousness and Middle-Income Class Affiliation: Theory and Evidence from Poland	2
Fiscal Burden as a Determinant of Innovation Performance in the CEE Countries	2
Writing Władysław Gomułka’s Life: Historiography of Władysław Gomułka’s Biographies	2
Peripheralization Processes as a Contextual Source of Populist Vote Choices: Evidence from the Czech Republic and Eastern Germany	2
The Reform Communist Interpretation of the Stalinist Period in Czech Historiography and Its Legacy	2
Between Conflict and Cooperation: Electoral Strategies of Ethnic Parties	2
Fictionalizing the Past in Estonia: Cultural Memory in Women’s Literature	2
Outcomes, Politicians, or the Institution Itself? Using a Czech Case to Explain Trust Formation in Different Political Institutions and the Implications for Voter Turnout	2
Taming Transylvania: Paramilitaries Building State and Peace after World War I	2
Communist Prison Camps as Sites of Memory and Legacies of Dissent: Belene and Goli Otok in Bulgarian and Croatian Cultural Memory	2
Corrigendum to Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Toward a Dynamic Approach	2
The Effectiveness of Grassroots Lobbying at the Regional Level in Poland: The Cases of Opole and Subcarpathian Region	2
Participation in Polish Local Elections: Sheer Rational Choice or Social Embeddedness Fate?	2
The Incumbency Advantage during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examining the 2020 Polish Presidential Election	2
Lustration: A Post-Communist Phenomenon	2
Restoring What Never Existed: The Role of Familism in Narratives of Return in Hungary	2
Re-enchanting Modernity in the East and West: Comparative Perspectives on the Legacy of 1968. An Author Meets Her Reviewers: A Symposium	2
East European Politics and Societies’ Statement on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine	2
The Entrepreneur in “Transformation Cinema”: Representing the Economic Changes of the 1990s in Poland, Czech Republic, and Slovakia	2
Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Toward a Dynamic Approach	2
Exclusively Our People: Defining Tribalism through the Slovak Case	2
Representations of Dissent against Communism in Romania: Anti-Communist Heroes, “Prison Saints,” and (Extra)Ordinary Citizens	1
Law between Nationalism and Regionalism: The Integration of the Transylvanian Juridical Field in Greater Romania (1918–1927)	1
Terror in Przedbórz: The Night of 26 May 1945	1
From Gender Re-Traditionalizations to Anti-Gender Mobilizations: Care for Family in Serbia and Croatia	1
After All These Years, Still Divided by Memories? East Central Europe and European Union Politics of Memory Twenty Years after the Enlargement	1
Personalized Value Struggles amid Marketization: The Search for the Good among Men on the Margins of Bucharest	1
Not So Much Societal: The Catholic Church in Poland as a Veto Player	1
Proposing Anti-LGBTQIAP Resolutions at the Municipal Level in Poland: Meeting the Social Demand or Making Use of the Available Resources?	1
The Evolution of Civic Activism in Contemporary Russia	1
Enver Hoxha’s Last Purge: Inside the Ruling Circle of Communist Albania (1981–1983)	1
The Polish Countryside as a Gray Zone: Village Heads and the Meso Level of the General Government, 1939–1945	1
Remembering on Command: Autobiographical Narratives of the Officers of the Polish Security Forces, 1944–1956	1
The Moral Career of a Suspected Legionary: Psychological Language in the Securitate Archives	1
A Narrow Path to Victory: Robert Fico, Smer-SD, and the 2023 Elections in Slovakia	1
Churches in an Ever-Changing Socio-Political Context	1
From Class Struggle to Conservative Revolution: Andrzej Wajda Censors Tadeusz Junak’s The Palace	1
In Defense of Liberal Democracy: Exploring Motivations for Protesting against Democratic Backsliding	1
Perpetrators and Victims Blurred in the Soundscape of Wartime Mass Rallies: The Third-Generation Perspective in Marcel Beyer’s The Karnau Tapes and Kateřina Tučková’s Gerta	1
The Inner Dynamics of Moral Economies: The Case of Waste Management	1
Race, Innocence, and Objectification of the Nation in Latvia	1
The 1990 Revolution on Granite: Lessons from the First Maidan	1
A Balkan Neofunctional Success Story or the Curious Case of Bosnia’s Central Bank	1
Being “Local” in Eastern Slovakia: Belonging in a Multiethnic Periphery	1
Opening, Polling, Counting: Deterring Election-Day Fraud	1
Elite Universities as Populist Scapegoats: Evidence from Hungary and Turkey	1
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and the Repatriation of East Prussian Deportees from Simbirsk during World War I	1

“Forgotten Friend(s)”: Polish Literary Diplomacy in Slovenia	1
Blind Spots in Post-1989 Czech Historiography of State Socialism: Gender as a Category of Analysis	1
The Conflict in Eastern Ukraine and International Support for the Decentralization Reform (2014–2022): Theory-Guided Observations	1
Dreams of a Democratic Peace: The Carnival at 35	1
Silesians in the Face of Polish Cultural Dominance	1
Factors in National Self-Designation of Slavic Muslims in the Montenegrin Sandžak	1
Inherent Attitudes or Misplaced Policies? Explaining COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Romania	1
Monitoring Democracy in the Eastern Neighbourhood: When Are the EU’s Assessments Lenient and Why?	1
György Konrád as a Post-Dissident Public Intellectual Biography, Interventions, Reception	1
Late Bystander Testimonies in East Galicia: Between Memory, Identity, and Loyalties	1
How Historians Got Involved in Memory Politics: Patterns of the Historiography of the Polish People’s Republic before and after 1989	1
Interpretative Frames, Phenomenology, and the Question of the Republican Character of Polish and Czech Dissident Movements of the 1970s and 1980s	1
Economic Strain in Post-Communist Countries and the Rest of Europe: Attitudes Towards the Unemployed and the Old	1
The Development of National Cinema in Post-Maidan Ukraine	1
Pre-War Government and Party Networks in the Rebel Political Institutions: Individual Co-Optation in Eastern Ukraine	0
The Political Opportunity Structure and the Evolution of the Organizational Base of Peasants’ and Farmers’ Protest Activity in Poland in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries	0
Intragovernmental Grant Distribution and Party Alignment Bias under Democratic and Authoritarian Governments: The Case of Poland	0
Key Features and Factors behind Social Trust Formation in Ukraine	0
Retroactive Catastrophe	0
From Opposition to Implementation: Unraveling the Strategy of Technocratic Populist Government’s Appropriation of Opposition Policy Proposals	0
The Ethnopolitical Motivation behind the Formation of New Municipalities in Montenegro	0
Preferences for Redistribution, Welfare Chauvinism, and Radical Right Party Support in Central and Eastern Europe	0
Influenced by Power or Reasons? The Role of Amicus Curiae Briefs in Constitutional Court Decision-Making	0
“Is Juvenile Delinquency in Lithuania Increasing because of the Bad Influence of the West”? Punitive Attitudes of the Lithuanian Population towards Juvenile Offenders	0
Against Dictatorship, against Backsliding? Examining the Effect of Serbian Anti-Government Protests on the 2020 Electoral Boycott	0
Backsliding versus Backlash: Do Challenges to Democracy in East Central Europe Threaten LGBTQIAP Empowerment?	0
Three Accounts—Two World Wars—One Town: Narratives of War and Genocide in Eastern Galicia	0
Civic Mobilization against Democratic Backsliding in Post-Communist Europe	0
Premarital Sex in State-Socialist Poland: A Generational Perspective	0
Homo sovieticus and the Neoliberal Legacy of Polish Dissent	0
Caring for the Child, Caring for the Family: The Clash over the National Strategy for the Child (2019–2030) in Bulgaria	0
Being Polish, Jewish, and Tarnovian: Youth and Polyvalent Senses of Belonging during the Second Polish Republic	0
Neo-Feudalism and Neo-Traditionalism as Responses to Liberalism	0
Corruption, Campaigning, and Novelty: The 2020 Parliamentary Elections and the Evolving Patterns of Party Politics in Slovakia	0
From the Editors and From the Translator	0
Party System Change and Challenges to Democracy in Slovenia	0
Are Your Hands Covered in Jewish Blood? Jewish Red Army Soldiers Encountering the Aftermath of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union	0
Introduction to the Special Issue “Canonizing and Contesting Communist-Era Dissent in Eastern Europe: Actors, Representations, and Impacts since 1989”	0
The Impact of War on Interethnic Godparenthood in Ukraine	0
Improving Living Conditions, Deepening Class Divisions: Hungarian Class Structure in International Comparison, 2002–2018	0
Five Lives of a Holocaust Survivor: On Shifting Identities, the Search for Belonging, and Building Meaning	0
Challenging Civil Society Elites in Poland: The Dynamics and Strategies of Civil Society Actors	0
Russia, the Western Balkans, and the Question of Status	0
Cultural Liberal and Conservative Mobilizing Potential and Political Participation in Post-Communist Countries	0
Commemorating Martial Law as Treason	0
Families in Times of Crisis: Narratives of Family and Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Slovakia	0
Religion and National Identity in Central and Eastern European Countries: Persisting and Evolving Links	0
Overlooked and Undeserving: Older People in Narratives of Return in Post-1989 East Germany	0
Cultural Expertise versus Strategic Ignorance: Confronting Cultural Diversity In and Out of Court in Poland	0
The Moral Economy of Welfare: Bulgarian Roma Migrants Reclaiming Social Citizenship through Fraud	0
The Political-Administrative Nexus in Sub-National Governance: Exploring the Lack of Independent Administration in Poland	0
Consensus-Seeking and Reversed Representation among Polish Officials in the Council of the European Union	0
The Gaze of the Implicated Subject: Non-Jewish Testimony to Communal Violence during the German Occupation of Lithuania	0
Mobilizing against Democratic Backsliding: What Motivates Protestors in Central and Eastern Europe?	0
The Politics of Work: Young Employees’ Awareness of Industrial Relations in Romania’s Call Centres	0
The Rise and Decline of Polish Revisionist Marxist Economics: The Fates of Włodzimierz Brus and the Faculty of Political Economy (University of Warsaw), 1953–1968	0
Intersection of Conflicting Values: Symbols of Memory and Acts of Artistic Expression	0
Dissidents, Rebels, and Everyday Heroes: New Perspectives on the Digital Archiving of Cultural Resistance Under State Socialism	0
The Toolkit of Nationalist Populism in Contemporary Hungary: Symbols, Objects, and Modalities of Circulation	0
Trianon in Popular History in Late-Socialist and Post-Transition Hungary: A Case Study	0
Economic Growth Determinants in South-East European Countries: A System Generalized Method of Moments Approach	0
Biographies of Belonging in the Holocaust	0
From Leipzig to Kyiv through Brussels: How the Revolution of 1989 Defined an Era	0
And Mama Studied with Me: Elementary Education, Modernization, Gendered Curricula, and the Reconfiguration of the Public and Private in the Danubian Principalities and Greek Lands, 1810s-1840s	0
Time for Regional Parties to Shine or for National Parties to Lock Horns Again? The True Nature of Czech Regional Elections	0
Generational Changes in Attitudes toward the European Union in Poland and Ukraine	0
How Do Political Parties Capture New Democracies? Hungary and North Macedonia in Comparison	0
A Pole, a Jew, a Mother, a Communist: Tonia Lechtman’s Biography between Home and Exile	0
Bottom-up Content Convergence Phenomena in Socialist Cultural Economies: The Case of Premodern Story Universes of Romanian Film and Music	0
The Quality of Local Institutions: The Case of Poland	0
“Work Hard, Play Hard”: The Moral Economy of Company Celebrations in Post-Socialist Bulgaria	0
Unwillingly Orientalist: Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s Travel Diary to Burma as an Example of an Unusual Postcolonial Eastern European Account	0
From the Editors	0
“Me? I’m No Revolution. I’m No Heroine.” Reconfiguring the Dissident in Contemporary Polish Theater	0
Are They Building a “Second Ireland” in Poland? Political Remitting by Polish Migrants and Return Migrants from Ireland	0
Postsocialist and Postcapitalist Questions? Far-Right Historical Narratives and the Making of a New Europe	0
Purim Gifts from Russian Neighbors: Prewar Identity Formation and Wartime Survival among Young Jews from Soviet Vitebsk	0
Underestimated Ally: Ukraine during the Polish–Soviet War of 1920 in Polish Underground Publications (1976–1989)	0
“We No Longer Only Carry Flowers”: Radicalization Processes Among the Belarusian Opposition-in-Exile	0
Contending Temporalities: Stretching the Temporal Reach of Lustration in Central and Eastern Europe	0

Introduction: Civic Activism in Central and Eastern Europe Thirty Years After Communism’s Demise	0
Symbolic Conflict in the Public Sphere: The Catholic Church against the State in Post-Communist Poland	0
Reproductive Choices and Climate Change in a Pronatalist Context	0
Integration Maturity of Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine: Has DCFTA Helped Prepare Them for the EU Accession Process?	0
Party Views on Democratic Backsliding and Differentiated Integration	0
Expelled from the Fairytale: The Impact of the Dissident Legacy on Post-1989 Central European Politics	0
The Imagined City: The Great Flood of 1997 as a Foundation Story of Wrocław	0
The Great Terror in 1930s Kharkiv: The Case of Konrad Weisselberg and Anna Mykalo	0
Luddites of the Twenty-First Century? The Influence of Trade Unions in Hard Coal Mining on Sector Reforms in Poland and the Czech Republic	0
“Paradoxical” Dissatisfaction among Post-Socialist Farmers with the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: A Study of Farmers’ Subjectivities in Rural Poland	0
Being There as Socialism Unravels	0
The Role of Legitimacy in Shaping Tax Morale: The Case of Hungary	0
Ownership Transformations in a Post-Transition Economy: Which Institutions Matter? Evidence from the Polish Banking Sector	0
Transnational Far Right and Nazi Soft Power in Eastern Europe: The Humboldt Fellowships for Romanians	0
Vladimir’s Bakarić’s Idea of a Socialist (Croatian) Nation: From Communist Historicism to Depoliticization	0
Historical Legacies and Their Impact on Human Capital: Comparing Regions within Romania	0
The Last Mass Execution of World War II: The Roundup Carried Out by Soviet Troops in the Augustów Forest in July 1945	0
The Mobilization for Spatial Justice in Divided Societies: Urban Commons, Trust Reconstruction, and Socialist Memory in Bosnia and Herzegovina	0
In the Shadows of the Commonwealth: Catholicism, Religious Tolerance, and Nineteenth-Century Polish Independence	0
Artists and Generals: The Representation of Colonial and National Rule through Street Naming	0
Obedience to Authority: Attitudes of Prison Officers in Stalinist Poland, 1944–1954	0
Writing on Communist History in Central Europe: Introduction	0
Platens from the Past: Yugonostalgia and the UNIS-tbm Typewriter	0
Post-Dissident Politics and the “Liberal Consensus” in East-Central Europe after 1989	0
How Right-Wing Populists Influence Citizenship Education—Evidence from Poland	0
How Can One Assess the Level of Party Newness, Continuity, and Change? Some Examples from Poland	0
Perceptions of the European Union’s Policy Impact: Europeanisation of Public Attitudes in Hungary	0
The EU and Dispute Settlement: The Case of the Macedonian Name Issue	0
The Idea of the Yugoslav–Bulgarian Federation at the End of the Second World War	0
Whose Interest Really Matters? The Role of NGOs’ Representatives within Local Advisory Councils in Poland	0
The Dark Side of Transnational Mobility: Croatian Travel Writers in Hitler’s New Europe	0
Failure Privilege in Policymaking: Exploitation, (In)visibilization, and Future Projection in Abortion Policy in Poland	0
How Does the “Us” versus “Them” Polarization Work? Capturing Political Antagonism with the Political Antagonism Scale	0
An Arrested Dialectic: The National Past and (Post-)Dissident Catholic Moral Reasoning in Slovakia	0
Expression of Dissidence: NOW-a Publishing House as a Social Movement Campaign under an Authoritarian Regime	0
Narrative(s) of Return and the Gendered Memory Politics of Post-1989 Transformation: Populist Familism, Catholic Fundamentalism, and Liberal Feminism in Poland	0
Never-Ending Journeys to the Past	0
Introduction to the Special Section: National, European, Transnational: Far-Right Activism in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries	0
Idiotic or Columbo’s Wife? Constitutional Conventions in the Czech Republic	0
Playing Locally but Commuting to a Better School: Urban Planning and Education Policies in Parental Involvement Practices and Local Community Formation	0
The EU, the Visegrád Group, and Southeast Europe: Conflicting Perspectives within an Enlarging “European Identity”	0
Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe	0
Party Nomination Strategies in Flexible-List PR: Which Candidate Characteristics Lead to Realistic Positions?	0