OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Communist and Post-Communist Studies 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
Soviet Memories as Part of Regional Repertoires of Usable Past in Contemporary Russia	15
Distributional Consequences of Political Freedom	13
Migration and Soft Power	10
Religion and the Protest Movement	8
The Long Shadow Cast by Communism over Women’s Political Representation	7
The Language of the Witness, the Language of the Researcher	7
Political Positioning of Religious Institutions in Comparative Perspective	7
Introduction to the Special Issue on Political Participation in Post-Communist Europe during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
The Presence of Maoism in Mexico	6
Dear Compatriots	6
Debt-Based Trade, Social Norms, and Informality in Uzbekistan	6
How Does a Military Create a Tradition in a New Democracy?	5
Polyphonic Peace	5
Coercive Labor in the Cotton Harvest in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Uzbekistan	5
Communist Social Policy	5
Lukashenka’s Constitutional Plebiscite and the Polarization of Belarusian Society	5
Social and Personal Fears of the Population of Ukraine	4
The Effect of Election Observation	4
Social Class and Ethnocentric Worldviews	4
Explaining Access to Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe	4
Erratum	4
Erratum	4
Failures in Ukrainian Arms Procurement 2014–2023	4
Introduction to the Special Issue on Authoritarian Resilience of Communist Regimes in Asia	4
Legitimizing Putin’s Regime	4

Pushed against the Wall	3
The Role of “Resources” in Regime Durability in Laos	3
Witnessing the Crisis	3
The Invention of Legacy	3
Confronting Russia	3
A Least Expected Ally?	3
Measuring Civil Society	3
No Limit on Terms Served?	2
Class Analysis as Systemic Critique	2
The Digital Contestation of Racialized Nationhood in Russia	2
The Politburos of Communist Eastern Europe	2
Ukrainian Researchers in a War Documentation Project	2
The East Is Red…Again! How the Specters of Communism and Russia Shape Central and Eastern European Views of China	2
Networked Public Diplomacy	2
Coronavirus Pandemic Response and Voter Choice	2
LGBT Russians and Political Environment for Activism	2
The Foundations of Russian Statehood	2
Studying the Great Patriotic War in the Shadow of the Current Crisis	2
The Political Economy of Autocratization	2
Between Loyalty and Opposition	2
The Soviet Pillar of Belonging	2
Socialist Egalitarianism in Everyday Life of Secondary Technical Schools in Czechoslovakia during the Normalization Period (1969–89)	2
Multiple Positionalities of a Researcher	2
Varieties of Digital Authoritarianism	2
War Memories, Monumental Activism, and Regional Identity in the Arctic Borderland	2
Organizational Strength and Authoritarian Durability in Cambodia	2
Populism, Anti-establishment Politics, and Dimensions of Political Competition	2
The Cossacks of Southern Russia in 21st-Century Memory Politics	2
Communist Legacy, Anti-Elite Sentiments, and Modernization Theory	1
Assessing Socialist Past and Sociodemographic Present	1
Introduction to the Special Issue on Eurasian Continuities	1
Gendering Violence in the Age of Anti-Genderism	1
ICT Use and Entrepreneurial Mobilization of Chinese Grassroots Activists in and beyond Cyberspace	1
Collective Action, Memories of 1989, and Social Media	1
Explaining Support for Russian Narratives about the Events in Ukraine among Japanese Scholars and Intellectuals in 2014–19	1
A Bottom-Up Analysis of Societal Belief in Judicial Independence in Russia	1
Immersion and Distancing	1
A Not-So-Simple Noodle Story	1
Escaping the Long Shadow of Homo Sovieticus	1
Elections, Succession, and Legitimacy in Ukraine	1
Introduction to the Special Issue on Protest and Authoritarian Reaction in Belarus	1
Russian Foreign Policy Research and War in Ukraine	1
Class, Conflict, and Power between Hegemony and Critical Knowledge	1
“We Will Die as Free People”	1
Constitutional Amendments, Democratic Resilience, and the Threat of Political Regime Change	1
Reframing Reflexivity	1
Against Putin and Corruption, for Navalny and the “Revolution”?	1
Introduction to the Special Issue on Class Dynamics from Socialism to Post-Socialism	1
International Policy Transfer in Post-Communist States	1
Do Successor Parties Influence Public Attitudes toward the Past? Evidence from Young Democracies	1

Killing Politics Softly	1
Define a Dragon	1
Using the Pandemic as a Pretext	1