OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of East European Politics and Societies 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
Oligarch Moralities of Wealth: The Russian Case	26
Threading Postsocialist, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Intersections in Hybrid Spaces: Selected Women’s Textile Creations across the Czech and Slovak Borders	14
Václav Havel: Posthumous Reclamation of a National Hero?	12
Exclusively Our People: Defining Tribalism through the Slovak Case	11
The Functional Dereliction of the Druzhba Cinema in Comrat: A Case Study of a Cultural and National Heritage Site in Post-Soviet Gagauzia	11
Gender Differences in Public Issue Salience: Evidence from Czechia	11
Inherent Attitudes or Misplaced Policies? Explaining COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Romania	10
In Defense of Liberal Democracy: Exploring Motivations for Protesting against Democratic Backsliding	10
Overlooked and Undeserving: Older People in Narratives of Return in Post-1989 East Germany	8
Perpetrators and Victims Blurred in the Soundscape of Wartime Mass Rallies: The Third-Generation Perspective in Marcel Beyer’s The Karnau Tapes and Kateř	8
Is it Greener on the Right Side? The Relationship Between Political Preferences and Environmental Behavior in Hungary	7
Artists and Generals: The Representation of Colonial and National Rule through Street Naming	6
Underestimated Ally: Ukraine during the Polish–Soviet War of 1920 in Polish Underground Publications (1976–1989)	6
Justice Reform and Elite Power Consolidation: A Comparative Analysis of Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova under the European Neighbourhood Policy	6
Obedience to Authority: Attitudes of Prison Officers in Stalinist Poland, 1944–1954	6
The Land at the Bottom of the Lake: Development through Nature in Yugoslav (Post-)Socialism	6
Party System Change and Challenges to Democracy in Slovenia	5
Agency Attributions under a Normative Crisis: Corpus Analysis of Emerging Frameworks of Meaning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland	5
Bottom-up Content Convergence Phenomena in Socialist Cultural Economies: The Case of Premodern Story Universes of Romanian Film and Music	5
Between Control and Invisibility: Platform Workers and the Limits of Protection in Poland and Slovakia	5
Expelled from the Fairytale: The Impact of the Dissident Legacy on Post-1989 Central European Politics	5
Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe	5
The Ethnic Card: From Diaspora Policy Instrument to Migration Policy Trigger. The Case of the Pole’s Card	5
Biographies of Belonging in the Holocaust	5
The Russian War in Ukraine and the Visegrád Group: What Impact on Energy Transformation?	4

Displaced Borderlands: Civilizational Belonging in the Narratives of Kharkiv Residents Relocated to the European Union after February 2022	4
Shades of Dependency and the Discourse on “Corruption”: Railway Concessions in Romania in the Nineteenth Century	4
Nationalist versus Populist Constructions of “the People”: Eastern Europe and Latin America in Comparative Perspective	4
Key Features and Factors behind Social Trust Formation in Ukraine	4
The History of the Czech Women’s Movement: A Casualty of War?	4
Europe Moving Eastward? The Changing Dynamics in the EU and NATO Following the War in Ukraine	4
Being There as Socialism Unravels	3
From Opposition to Implementation: Unraveling the Strategy of Technocratic Populist Government’s Appropriation of Opposition Policy Proposals	3
Nationalism, Clientelism, and Green Transition: Econativism and Environmental Politics in Pljevlja, Montenegro	3
Narrative(s) of Return and the Gendered Memory Politics of Post-1989 Transformation: Populist Familism, Catholic Fundamentalism, and Liberal Feminism in Poland	3
Being “Local” in Eastern Slovakia: Belonging in a Multiethnic Periphery	3
Dreams of a Democratic Peace: The Carnival at 35	3
The Russia–Serbia Nexus between Strategic Partnership and Domestic Politics	3
Three Accounts—Two World Wars—One Town: Narratives of War and Genocide in Eastern Galicia	3
Corrigendum to Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Toward a Dynamic Approach	3
“Forgotten Friend(s)”: Polish Literary Diplomacy in Slovenia	3
Are They Building a “Second Ireland” in Poland? Political Remitting by Polish Migrants and Return Migrants from Ireland	3
Never-Ending Journeys to the Past	3
The Politics of Work: Young Employees’ Awareness of Industrial Relations in Romania’s Call Centres	3
The Presence of War	2
The Imagined City: The Great Flood of 1997 as a Foundation Story of Wrocław	2
Are Your Hands Covered in Jewish Blood? Jewish Red Army Soldiers Encountering the Aftermath of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union	2
Does Ideological Extremism within Generations Explain Electoral Mobilization? The Evidence from Poland 2011–2023	2
A Balkan Neofunctional Success Story or the Curious Case of Bosnia’s Central Bank	2
The Conflict in Eastern Ukraine and International Support for the Decentralization Reform (2014–2022): Theory-Guided Observations	2
Post-Dissident Politics and the “Liberal Consensus” in East-Central Europe after 1989	2
Why Brothers in Kosovo Build Identical Houses: The House as an Attempt to Adapt to Contradictions of Globalization	2
Neo-Feudalism and Neo-Traditionalism as Responses to Liberalism	2
Introduction: Revisiting Security in the Post-Yugoslav Space. Non-State Actors as Allies of Russian Foreign Policy	2
Fiscal Burden as a Determinant of Innovation Performance in the CEE Countries	2
Sustainable Consumption Consciousness and Middle-Income Class Affiliation: Theory and Evidence from Poland	2
Between Peripheries and Solidarities: Resisting Green Extractivism in Serbia	2
Being Polish, Jewish, and Tarnovian: Youth and Polyvalent Senses of Belonging during the Second Polish Republic	2
Industrial Enterprise in Two Globalizations: The Czechoslovak Footwear Industry between Socialist Economic Exchange and Global Capitalism, 1980s–1990s	2
Communist Prison Camps as Sites of Memory and Legacies of Dissent: Belene and Goli Otok in Bulgarian and Croatian Cultural Memory	2
Terror in Przedbórz: The Night of 26 May 1945	2
A Paradigm Shift: The Geopolitical Awakening of the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe States as Full-Fledged Security Actors in the Context of Russia’s War in Ukraine	2
Between Conflict and Cooperation: Electoral Strategies of Ethnic Parties	1
1945–2025	1
Restoring What Never Existed: The Role of Familism in Narratives of Return in Hungary	1
Global Image in the Making: 1960s Polish Foreign Propaganda Targeting Africa and Asia	1
The Perils (and Promise) of German Colonization: Civilizational Hierarchies and Anxieties in Nineteenth-Century Romania	1
The Impact of War on Interethnic Godparenthood in Ukraine	1
The Gender Gap in the Populist Vote: The Bulgarian and Hungarian Cases	1
The Polish Countryside as a Gray Zone: Village Heads and the Meso Level of the General Government, 1939–1945	1
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	1
Populism in Central and Eastern Europe: Manifestations and Impact in Interdisciplinary Perspective	1
From Class Struggle to Conservative Revolution: Andrzej Wajda Censors Tadeusz Junak’s The Palace	1
Religion and National Identity in Central and Eastern European Countries: Persisting and Evolving Links	1
Czechoslovakia’s Cold War Arms Towns as Sites of Military Globalization	1

Expression of Dissidence: NOW-a Publishing House as a Social Movement Campaign under an Authoritarian Regime	1
Populist Juggling with Fear: The Case of Hungary	1
Backsliding versus Backlash: Do Challenges to Democracy in East Central Europe Threaten LGBTQIAP Empowerment?	1
“Secret Services Are Meant To Serve”: State Violence in the Autobiographic Memory of Secret Police Officers in Communist Poland	1
A Pole, a Jew, a Mother, a Communist: Tonia Lechtman’s Biography between Home and Exile	1
Introduction: Colonial Anxieties, Corruption Scandals, and Xenophobia in Nineteenth-Century Infrastructure Development in Romania	1
Platens from the Past: Yugonostalgia and the UNIS-tbm Typewriter	1
How Do Bigger and Smaller Cities Manage Migration? Ukrainian War Refugees in Polish Cities	1
The Inner Dynamics of Moral Economies: The Case of Waste Management	1
Prelude to the Establishment of Communism in Slovakia	1
Party Nomination Strategies in Flexible-List PR: Which Candidate Characteristics Lead to Realistic Positions?	1
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and the Repatriation of East Prussian Deportees from Simbirsk during World War I	1
Russia, the Western Balkans, and the Question of Status	1
The 1990 Revolution on Granite: Lessons from the First Maidan	1
Time for Regional Parties to Shine or for National Parties to Lock Horns Again? The True Nature of Czech Regional Elections	1
Remembering on Command: Autobiographical Narratives of the Officers of the Polish Security Forces, 1944–1956	1
Making Lace after Socialism: Creativity, Gender, and the Politics of the Commons	1
Propertyless Proprietors: Ownership and Entrepreneurship on Airbnb in Prague	1
Introduction: Everyday Creativity and Gender in Postsocialism	1
Fictionalizing the Past in Estonia: Cultural Memory in Women’s Literature	1
The Political-Administrative Nexus in Sub-National Governance: Exploring the Lack of Independent Administration in Poland	1
The Post-Socialist Reshaping of Urban Identity: Insights from Novi Sad, Serbia	1
Polemics on Polish Progressiveness and Patriotism: A Fanonian Reading of National Consciousness	1
Opening, Polling, Counting: Deterring Election-Day Fraud	1
Ghosts, Rewilded: Environmental Reverberations in the Balkans	1
The Demagogic Normality of Polish Neo-Traditionalism: Constructing an Illiberal Imaginary	1
Purim Gifts from Russian Neighbors: Prewar Identity Formation and Wartime Survival among Young Jews from Soviet Vitebsk	1