East European Politics and Societies

Article	Citations
Václav Havel: Posthumous Reclamation of a National Hero?	15
Savoring Polishness: History and Tradition in Contemporary Polish Food Media	14
Oligarch Moralities of Wealth: The Russian Case	11
The Reform Communist Interpretation of the Stalinist Period in Czech Historiography and Its Legacy	8
Gender Differences in Public Issue Salience: Evidence from Czechia	8
Exclusively Our People: Defining Tribalism through the Slovak Case	8
The Effectiveness of Grassroots Lobbying at the Regional Level in Poland: The Cases of Opole and Subcarpathian Region	7
In Defense of Liberal Democracy: Exploring Motivations for Protesting against Democratic Backsliding	6
Not So Much Societal: The Catholic Church in Poland as a Veto Player	6
Proposing Anti-LGBTQIAP Resolutions at the Municipal Level in Poland: Meeting the Social Demand or Making Use of the Available Resources?	5
Overlooked and Undeserving: Older People in Narratives of Return in Post-1989 East Germany	5
Inherent Attitudes or Misplaced Policies? Explaining COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Romania	5
The Evolution of Civic Activism in Contemporary Russia	5
Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe	4
Artists and Generals: The Representation of Colonial and National Rule through Street Naming	4
Obedience to Authority: Attitudes of Prison Officers in Stalinist Poland, 1944–1954	4
Is it Greener on the Right Side? The Relationship between Political Preferences and Environmental Behavior in Hungary	4
Underestimated Ally: Ukraine during the Polish–Soviet War of 1920 in Polish Underground Publications (1976–1989)	4
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	4
The Last Mass Execution of World War II: The Roundup Carried Out by Soviet Troops in the Augustów Forest in July 1945	3
Biographies of Belonging in the Holocaust	3
The Ethnic Card: From Diaspora Policy Instrument to Migration Policy Trigger. The Case of the Pole’s Card	3
Expelled from the Fairytale: The Impact of the Dissident Legacy on Post-1989 Central European Politics	3
Bottom-up Content Convergence Phenomena in Socialist Cultural Economies: The Case of Premodern Story Universes of Romanian Film and Music	3
Agency Attributions under a Normative Crisis: Corpus Analysis of Emerging Frameworks of Meaning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland	3

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	3
Party System Change and Challenges to Democracy in Slovenia	3
Key Features and Factors behind Social Trust Formation in Ukraine	3
Why Brothers in Kosovo Build Identical Houses: The House as an Attempt to Adapt to Contradictions of Globalization	2
Post-Dissident Politics and the “Liberal Consensus” in East-Central Europe after 1989	2
Economic Growth Determinants in South-East European Countries: A System Generalized Method of Moments Approach	2
The Logic of the Punisher: Retrospective Voting and Hyper-Accountability in Lithuania	2
Party Views on Democratic Backsliding and Differentiated Integration	2
Political Will and Media Law: A Poland Case Analysis	2
Displaced Borderlands: Civilizational Belonging in the Narratives of Kharkiv Residents Relocated to the European Union after February 2022	2
Corrigendum to Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Toward a Dynamic Approach	2
The Politics of Work: Young Employees’ Awareness of Industrial Relations in Romania’s Call Centres	2
Sustainable Consumption Consciousness and Middle-Income Class Affiliation: Theory and Evidence from Poland	2
Being Polish, Jewish, and Tarnovian: Youth and Polyvalent Senses of Belonging during the Second Polish Republic	2
Are Your Hands Covered in Jewish Blood? Jewish Red Army Soldiers Encountering the Aftermath of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union	2
Three Accounts—Two World Wars—One Town: Narratives of War and Genocide in Eastern Galicia	2
The Development of National Cinema in Post-Maidan Ukraine	2
How Historians Got Involved in Memory Politics: Patterns of the Historiography of the Polish People’s Republic before and after 1989	2
Being “Local” in Eastern Slovakia: Belonging in a Multiethnic Periphery	2
Nationalist versus Populist Constructions of “the People”: Eastern Europe and Latin America in Comparative Perspective	2
Are They Building a “Second Ireland” in Poland? Political Remitting by Polish Migrants and Return Migrants from Ireland	2
From Opposition to Implementation: Unraveling the Strategy of Technocratic Populist Government’s Appropriation of Opposition Policy Proposals	2
Neo-Feudalism and Neo-Traditionalism as Responses to Liberalism	2
“Paradoxical” Dissatisfaction among Post-Socialist Farmers with the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: A Study of Farmers’ Subjectivities in Rural Poland	2
Never-Ending Journeys to the Past	2
The Imagined City: The Great Flood of 1997 as a Foundation Story of Wrocław	2
Being There as Socialism Unravels	2
Shades of Dependency and the Discourse on “Corruption”: Railway Concessions in Romania in the Nineteenth Century	2
Dreams of a Democratic Peace: The Carnival at 35	2
“Forgotten Friend(s)”: Polish Literary Diplomacy in Slovenia	2
Narrative(s) of Return and the Gendered Memory Politics of Post-1989 Transformation: Populist Familism, Catholic Fundamentalism, and Liberal Feminism in Poland	2
A Balkan Neofunctional Success Story or the Curious Case of Bosnia’s Central Bank	2
Civic Engagement and Its Disparate Goals in Bosnia-Herzegovina	1
Unsettling Borderlands: The Population Exchange and the Polish Minority in Soviet Belarus, 1944–1947	1
Purim Gifts from Russian Neighbors: Prewar Identity Formation and Wartime Survival among Young Jews from Soviet Vitebsk	1
Time for Regional Parties to Shine or for National Parties to Lock Horns Again? The True Nature of Czech Regional Elections	1
The Impact of War on Interethnic Godparenthood in Ukraine	1
How Do Political Parties Capture New Democracies? Hungary and North Macedonia in Comparison	1
The Political-Administrative Nexus in Sub-National Governance: Exploring the Lack of Independent Administration in Poland	1
The Polish Countryside as a Gray Zone: Village Heads and the Meso Level of the General Government, 1939–1945	1
Cultural Liberal and Conservative Mobilizing Potential and Political Participation in Post-Communist Countries	1
Retroactive Catastrophe	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
Making Lace after Socialism: Creativity, Gender, and the Politics of the Commons	1
Religion and National Identity in Central and Eastern European Countries: Persisting and Evolving Links	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
Terror in Przedbórz: The Night of 26 May 1945	1
Writing on Communist History in Central Europe: Introduction	1
The Inner Dynamics of Moral Economies: The Case of Waste Management	1

Communist Prison Camps as Sites of Memory and Legacies of Dissent: Belene and Goli Otok in Bulgarian and Croatian Cultural Memory	1
The EU and Dispute Settlement: The Case of the Macedonian Name Issue	1
From the Bronze Soldier to the “Bloody Marshal”: Monument Wars and Russia’s Aesthetic Vulnerability in Estonia and the Czech Republic	1
“Secret Services Are Meant To Serve”: State Violence in the Autobiographic Memory of Secret Police Officers in Communist Poland	1
Historical Sociology in Poland: Transformations of the Uses of the Past	1
Introduction: Civic Activism in Central and Eastern Europe Thirty Years After Communism’s Demise	1
Russia, the Western Balkans, and the Question of Status	1
Trianon in Popular History in Late-Socialist and Post-Transition Hungary: A Case Study	1
A Pole, a Jew, a Mother, a Communist: Tonia Lechtman’s Biography between Home and Exile	1
Fiscal Burden as a Determinant of Innovation Performance in the CEE Countries	1
The Conflict in Eastern Ukraine and International Support for the Decentralization Reform (2014–2022): Theory-Guided Observations	1
Platens from the Past: Yugonostalgia and the UNIS-tbm Typewriter	1
Expression of Dissidence: NOW-a Publishing House as a Social Movement Campaign under an Authoritarian Regime	1
The Role of Legitimacy in Shaping Tax Morale: The Case of Hungary	0
How Can One Assess the Level of Party Newness, Continuity, and Change? Some Examples from Poland	0
The East and the West: Regional Deservingness and Migration Aspirations of Displaced Ukrainians Living in Poland and the Czech Republic	0
Restoring What Never Existed: The Role of Familism in Narratives of Return in Hungary	0
Between Ideological Loyalty and Political Adaptation: The “Agrarian Question” in the Development of Bulgarian Social Democracy, 1891–1912	0
The Gaze of the Implicated Subject: Non-Jewish Testimony to Communal Violence during the German Occupation of Lithuania	0
From Dissidence to Heroism: Constructing an Ideal Post-Communist Identity in the Czech Republic	0
Between Conflict and Cooperation: Electoral Strategies of Ethnic Parties	0
How Right-Wing Populists Influence Citizenship Education—Evidence from Poland	0
Churches in an Ever-Changing Socio-Political Context	0
Symbolic Conflict in the Public Sphere: The Catholic Church against the State in Post-Communist Poland	0
Participation in Polish Local Elections: Sheer Rational Choice or Social Embeddedness Fate?	0
Labor, Work, and Action in Polish Community Gardens: Interlaced or Disconnected?	0
After All These Years, Still Divided by Memories? East Central Europe and European Union Politics of Memory Twenty Years after the Enlargement	0
A Narrow Path to Victory: Robert Fico, Smer-SD, and the 2023 Elections in Slovakia	0
György Konrád as a Post-Dissident Public Intellectual Biography, Interventions, Reception	0
Cultural Expertise versus Strategic Ignorance: Confronting Cultural Diversity In and Out of Court in Poland	0
How Does the “Us” versus “Them” Polarization Work? Capturing Political Antagonism with the Political Antagonism Scale	0
Monitoring Democracy in the Eastern Neighbourhood: When Are the EU’s Assessments Lenient and Why?	0
Integration Maturity of Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine: Has DCFTA Helped Prepare Them for the EU Accession Process?	0
From Gender Re-Traditionalizations to Anti-Gender Mobilizations: Care for Family in Serbia and Croatia	0
Ownership Transformations in a Post-Transition Economy: Which Institutions Matter? Evidence from the Polish Banking Sector	0
Party Nomination Strategies in Flexible-List PR: Which Candidate Characteristics Lead to Realistic Positions?	0
Factors in National Self-Designation of Slavic Muslims in the Montenegrin Sandžak	0
Caring for the Child, Caring for the Family: The Clash over the National Strategy for the Child (2019–2030) in Bulgaria	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
Challenging Civil Society Elites in Poland: The Dynamics and Strategies of Civil Society Actors	0
Failure Privilege in Policymaking: Exploitation, (In)visibilization, and Future Projection in Abortion Policy in Poland	0
Families in Times of Crisis: Narratives of Family and Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Slovakia	0
The Moral Career of a Suspected Legionary: Psychological Language in the Securitate Archives	0
Premarital Sex in State-Socialist Poland: A Generational Perspective	0
The Perils (and Promise) of German Colonization: Civilizational Hierarchies and Anxieties in Nineteenth-Century Romania	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
The Gender Gap in the Populist Vote: The Bulgarian and Hungarian Cases	0
The EU, the Visegrád Group, and Southeast Europe: Conflicting Perspectives within an Enlarging “European Identity”	0
Against Dictatorship, against Backsliding? Examining the Effect of Serbian Anti-Government Protests on the 2020 Electoral Boycott	0
Homo sovieticus and the Neoliberal Legacy of Polish Dissent	0
“A Disease Like Any Other”: Awareness-Raising and Neuro-tivization of Depression in Poland	0
Representations of Dissent against Communism in Romania: Anti-Communist Heroes, “Prison Saints,” and (Extra)Ordinary Citizens	0
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine as Witnessed by Ukrainian and Polish Students	0
How Do Bigger and Smaller Cities Manage Migration? Ukrainian War Refugees in Polish Cities	0
Shrinking, Shifting, and Strengthening: The Dynamics and Diversity of Civic Activism in Poland	0
The Moral Economy of Welfare: Bulgarian Roma Migrants Reclaiming Social Citizenship through Fraud	0
Preaching the “Traditional Family” in the Romanian Parliament: The Political Stakes and Meanings of a Hegemonic Narrative	0
Opening, Polling, Counting: Deterring Election-Day Fraud	0
The Hallier Affair, Political Corruption and National Dignity in Romania in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries	0
Writing Władysław Gomułka’s Life: Historiography of Władysław Gomułka’s Biographies	0
Mobilizing against Democratic Backsliding: What Motivates Protestors in Central and Eastern Europe?	0
Personalized Value Struggles amid Marketization: The Search for the Good among Men on the Margins of Bucharest	0
“We No Longer Only Carry Flowers”: Radicalization Processes Among the Belarusian Opposition-in-Exile	0
Consensus-Seeking and Reversed Representation among Polish Officials in the Council of the European Union	0
From Class Struggle to Conservative Revolution: Andrzej Wajda Censors Tadeusz Junak’s The Palace	0
Lustration: A Post-Communist Phenomenon	0
Five Lives of a Holocaust Survivor: On Shifting Identities, the Search for Belonging, and Building Meaning	0
Commemorating Martial Law as Treason	0
Pre-War Government and Party Networks in the Rebel Political Institutions: Individual Co-Optation in Eastern Ukraine	0
From Leipzig to Kyiv through Brussels: How the Revolution of 1989 Defined an Era	0
Race, Innocence, and Objectification of the Nation in Latvia	0
Intersection of Conflicting Values: Symbols of Memory and Acts of Artistic Expression	0
Economic Strain in Post-Communist Countries and the Rest of Europe: Attitudes Towards the Unemployed and the Old	0
Vladimir’s Bakarić’s Idea of a Socialist (Croatian) Nation: From Communist Historicism to Depoliticization	0
Blind Spots in Post-1989 Czech Historiography of State Socialism: Gender as a Category of Analysis	0
Historical Legacies and Their Impact on Human Capital: Comparing Regions within Romania	0
Investing in Femininity: A Case Study of Incarcerated Women in Lithuania	0
Enver Hoxha’s Last Purge: Inside the Ruling Circle of Communist Albania (1981–1983)	0
“Me? I’m No Revolution. I’m No Heroine.” Reconfiguring the Dissident in Contemporary Polish Theater	0

Contending Temporalities: Stretching the Temporal Reach of Lustration in Central and Eastern Europe	0
Intragovernmental Grant Distribution and Party Alignment Bias under Democratic and Authoritarian Governments: The Case of Poland	0
Do Populists in Power or the Economy Impact Civic Culture?	0
Fictionalizing the Past in Estonia: Cultural Memory in Women’s Literature	0
Whose Interest Really Matters? The Role of NGOs’ Representatives within Local Advisory Councils in Poland	0
Introduction: Under-Explored Consequences of the War in Ukraine	0
The Demagogic Normality of Polish Neo-Traditionalism: Constructing an Illiberal Imaginary	0
Improving Living Conditions, Deepening Class Divisions: Hungarian Class Structure in International Comparison, 2002–2018	0
“Work Hard, Play Hard”: The Moral Economy of Company Celebrations in Post-Socialist Bulgaria	0
Taming Transylvania: Paramilitaries Building State and Peace after World War I	0
The Moral Matrix of Capitalism: Insights from Central and Eastern Europe	0
The Great Terror in 1930s Kharkiv: The Case of Konrad Weisselberg and Anna Mykalo	0
Home as an Uncanny Site of Violence in Polish-Jewish Autobiographical Texts on the Holocaust	0
The 1990 Revolution on Granite: Lessons from the First Maidan	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
Outcomes, Politicians, or the Institution Itself? Using a Czech Case to Explain Trust Formation in Different Political Institutions and the Implications for Voter Turnout	0
Perceptions of the European Union’s Policy Impact: Europeanisation of Public Attitudes in Hungary	0
Editors’ Note	0
Generational Changes in Attitudes toward the European Union in Poland and Ukraine	0
Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Toward a Dynamic Approach	0
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and the Repatriation of East Prussian Deportees from Simbirsk during World War I	0
East European Politics and Societies’ Statement on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine	0
Influenced by Power or Reasons? The Role of Amicus Curiae Briefs in Constitutional Court Decision-Making	0
In the Shadows of the Commonwealth: Catholicism, Religious Tolerance, and Nineteenth-Century Polish Independence	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
Idiotic or Columbo’s Wife? Constitutional Conventions in the Czech Republic	0
Introduction to the Special Issue “Canonizing and Contesting Communist-Era Dissent in Eastern Europe: Actors, Representations, and Impacts since 1989”	0
Preferences for Redistribution, Welfare Chauvinism, and Radical Right Party Support in Central and Eastern Europe	0
War Populism? Volodymyr Zelensky’s Visual Transformation on Instagram after Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine	0
Anti-Semitism at the Intersection of Corruption and Colonialism: Continuities of Political Rhetoric in Romania from the Nineteenth Century to the Interwar Period	0
Peripheralization Processes as a Contextual Source of Populist Vote Choices: Evidence from the Czech Republic and Eastern Germany	0
Elite Universities as Populist Scapegoats: Evidence from Hungary and Turkey	0
Remembering on Command: Autobiographical Narratives of the Officers of the Polish Security Forces, 1944–1956	0
Civic Mobilization against Democratic Backsliding in Post-Communist Europe	0
The Quality of Local Institutions: The Case of Poland	0
Dissidents, Rebels, and Everyday Heroes: New Perspectives on the Digital Archiving of Cultural Resistance Under State Socialism	0
Late Bystander Testimonies in East Galicia: Between Memory, Identity, and Loyalties	0
The Incumbency Advantage during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examining the 2020 Polish Presidential Election	0
Introduction: Colonial Anxieties, Corruption Scandals, and Xenophobia in Nineteenth-Century Infrastructure Development in Romania	0
Youth Activism in Poland: Perceptions of Protest and Civic Engagement	0
An Arrested Dialectic: The National Past and (Post-)Dissident Catholic Moral Reasoning in Slovakia	0
Populism in Central and Eastern Europe: Manifestations and Impact in Interdisciplinary Perspective	0
From the Editors and From the Translator	0
Reproductive Choices and Climate Change in a Pronatalist Context	0