OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Václav Havel: Posthumous Reclamation of a National Hero?	18
In Need of a Leader: Bolesław Piasecki’s Charismatic Leadership in the 1930s	14
Savoring Polishness: History and Tradition in Contemporary Polish Food Media	11
Oligarch Moralities of Wealth: The Russian Case	10
The Reform Communist Interpretation of the Stalinist Period in Czech Historiography and Its Legacy	7
Gender Differences in Public Issue Salience: Evidence from Czechia	7
Exclusively Our People: Defining Tribalism through the Slovak Case	6
Proposing Anti-LGBTQIAP Resolutions at the Municipal Level in Poland: Meeting the Social Demand or Making Use of the Available Resources?	6
Inherent Attitudes or Misplaced Policies? Explaining COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Romania	6
Not So Much Societal: The Catholic Church in Poland as a Veto Player	5
In Defense of Liberal Democracy: Exploring Motivations for Protesting against Democratic Backsliding	4
The Evolution of Civic Activism in Contemporary Russia	4
The Effectiveness of Grassroots Lobbying at the Regional Level in Poland: The Cases of Opole and Subcarpathian Region	4
Is it Greener on the Right Side? The Relationship between Political Preferences and Environmental Behavior in Hungary	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 Gerta	4
Overlooked and Undeserving: Older People in Narratives of Return in Post-1989 East Germany	4
Underestimated Ally: Ukraine during the Polish–Soviet War of 1920 in Polish Underground Publications (1976–1989)	3
Artists and Generals: The Representation of Colonial and National Rule through Street Naming	3
Bottom-up Content Convergence Phenomena in Socialist Cultural Economies: The Case of Premodern Story Universes of Romanian Film and Music	3
Obedience to Authority: Attitudes of Prison Officers in Stalinist Poland, 1944–1954	3
The Toolkit of Nationalist Populism in Contemporary Hungary: Symbols, Objects, and Modalities of Circulation	3
The Last Mass Execution of World War II: The Roundup Carried Out by Soviet Troops in the Augustów Forest in July 1945	3
Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe	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
Expelled from the Fairytale: The Impact of the Dissident Legacy on Post-1989 Central European Politics	3

Corrigendum to Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Toward a Dynamic Approach	2
Dreams of a Democratic Peace: The Carnival at 35	2
Agency Attributions under a Normative Crisis: Corpus Analysis of Emerging Frameworks of Meaning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland	2
Biographies of Belonging in the Holocaust	2
The Idea of the Yugoslav–Bulgarian Federation at the End of the Second World War	2
Being There as Socialism Unravels	2
Are They Building a “Second Ireland” in Poland? Political Remitting by Polish Migrants and Return Migrants from Ireland	2
Silesians in the Face of Polish Cultural Dominance	2
Never-Ending Journeys to the Past	2
The Logic of the Punisher: Retrospective Voting and Hyper-Accountability in Lithuania	2
Nationalist versus Populist Constructions of “the People”: Eastern Europe and Latin America in Comparative Perspective	2
Party System Change and Challenges to Democracy 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
Re-enchanting Modernity in the East and West: Comparative Perspectives on the Legacy of 1968. An Author Meets Her Reviewers: A Symposium	2
The Development of National Cinema in Post-Maidan Ukraine	2
The Politics of Work: Young Employees’ Awareness of Industrial Relations in Romania’s Call Centres	2
Three Accounts—Two World Wars—One Town: Narratives of War and Genocide in Eastern Galicia	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
The Ethnic Card: From Diaspora Policy Instrument to Migration Policy Trigger. The Case of the Pole’s Card	2
Key Features and Factors behind Social Trust Formation in Ukraine	2
Political Will and Media Law: A Poland Case Analysis	2
Party Views on Democratic Backsliding and Differentiated Integration	2
“Forgotten Friend(s)”: Polish Literary Diplomacy in Slovenia	2
From Opposition to Implementation: Unraveling the Strategy of Technocratic Populist Government’s Appropriation of Opposition Policy Proposals	2
Economic Growth Determinants in South-East European Countries: A System Generalized Method of Moments Approach	2
Expression of Dissidence: NOW-a Publishing House as a Social Movement Campaign under an Authoritarian Regime	1
Platens from the Past: Yugonostalgia and the UNIS-tbm Typewriter	1
The EU and Dispute Settlement: The Case of the Macedonian Name Issue	1
The Conflict in Eastern Ukraine and International Support for the Decentralization Reform (2014–2022): Theory-Guided Observations	1
Introduction to the Special Section: National, European, Transnational: Far-Right Activism in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries	1
Are Your Hands Covered in Jewish Blood? Jewish Red Army Soldiers Encountering the Aftermath of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union	1
Terror in Przedbórz: The Night of 26 May 1945	1
Post-Dissident Politics and the “Liberal Consensus” in East-Central Europe after 1989	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
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
Making Lace after Socialism: Creativity, Gender, and the Politics of the Commons	1
The Polish Countryside as a Gray Zone: Village Heads and the Meso Level of the General Government, 1939–1945	1
Retroactive Catastrophe	1
Communist Prison Camps as Sites of Memory and Legacies of Dissent: Belene and Goli Otok in Bulgarian and Croatian Cultural Memory	1
The Impact of War on Interethnic Godparenthood in Ukraine	1
A Balkan Neofunctional Success Story or the Curious Case of Bosnia’s Central Bank	1
Neo-Feudalism and Neo-Traditionalism as Responses to Liberalism	1
Being Polish, Jewish, and Tarnovian: Youth and Polyvalent Senses of Belonging during the Second Polish Republic	1
The Inner Dynamics of Moral Economies: The Case of Waste Management	1
Writing on Communist History in Central Europe: Introduction	1
How Do Political Parties Capture New Democracies? Hungary and North Macedonia in Comparison	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
Religion and National Identity in Central and Eastern European Countries: Persisting and Evolving Links	1
Introduction: Civic Activism in Central and Eastern Europe Thirty Years After Communism’s Demise	1
The Political-Administrative Nexus in Sub-National Governance: Exploring the Lack of Independent Administration in Poland	1
Cultural Liberal and Conservative Mobilizing Potential and Political Participation in Post-Communist Countries	1
Fiscal Burden as a Determinant of Innovation Performance in the CEE Countries	1
Time for Regional Parties to Shine or for National Parties to Lock Horns Again? The True Nature of Czech Regional Elections	1
Why Brothers in Kosovo Build Identical Houses: The House as an Attempt to Adapt to Contradictions of Globalization	1
“Paradoxical” Dissatisfaction among Post-Socialist Farmers with the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: A Study of Farmers’ Subjectivities in Rural Poland	1
The Imagined City: The Great Flood of 1997 as a Foundation Story of Wrocław	1
Sustainable Consumption Consciousness and Middle-Income Class Affiliation: Theory and Evidence from Poland	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
“Secret Services Are Meant To Serve”: State Violence in the Autobiographic Memory of Secret Police Officers in Communist Poland	1
Russia, the Western Balkans, and the Question of Status	1
Historical Sociology in Poland: Transformations of the Uses of the Past	1