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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Distributional Consequences of Political Freedom	15
The Birth of Collective Action Out of Influencer Culture?	10
From Restricted to Digital Fieldwork	9
The Long Shadow Cast by Communism over Women’s Political Representation	8
Religion and the Protest Movement	8
Soviet Memories as Part of Regional Repertoires of Usable Past in Contemporary Russia	8
The Language of the Witness, the Language of the Researcher	7
From Division to Democracy	7
Forged in Crises	7
Polyphonic Peace	6
Introduction to the Special Issue on Political Participation in Post-Communist Europe during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Debt-Based Trade, Social Norms, and Informality in Uzbekistan	6
Political Positioning of Religious Institutions in Comparative Perspective	6
How Does a Military Create a Tradition in a New Democracy?	5
Coercive Labor in the Cotton Harvest in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Uzbekistan	5
Lukashenka’s Constitutional Plebiscite and the Polarization of Belarusian Society	5
Dear Compatriots	5
Communist Social Policy	5
Failures in Ukrainian Arms Procurement 2014–2023	4
Social Class and Ethnocentric Worldviews	4
From Celebrity Feminism to Feminist Anti-War Resistance	4
Transformations in Russian Activism	4
Erratum	4
Social and Personal Fears of the Population of Ukraine	4
Legitimizing Putin’s Regime	4

Knowledge Production and Resistance in Times of War	4
Witnessing the Crisis	3
Proxy Games and Freezing Conflict	3
Introduction to the Special Issue on Authoritarian Resilience of Communist Regimes in Asia	3
Measuring Civil Society	3
Socialist Egalitarianism in Everyday Life of Secondary Technical Schools in Czechoslovakia during the Normalization Period (1969–89)	3
The Invention of Legacy	3
Pushed against the Wall	3
The Role of “Resources” in Regime Durability in Laos	3
Class Analysis as Systemic Critique	3
Through Their Eyes	3
The Effect of Election Observation	3
A Least Expected Ally?	3
Studying the Great Patriotic War in the Shadow of the Current Crisis	3
The Cossacks of Southern Russia in 21st-Century Memory Politics	2
The Foundations of Russian Statehood	2
The East Is Red…Again! How the Specters of Communism and Russia Shape Central and Eastern European Views of China	2
War and Eurasia’s Ethnic Boundaries	2
Populism, Anti-establishment Politics, and Dimensions of Political Competition	2
Introduction to the Special Issue on Class Dynamics from Socialism to Post-Socialism	2
Introduction to the Special Issue on Eurasian Continuities	2
War Memories, Monumental Activism, and Regional Identity in the Arctic Borderland	2
The Politburos of Communist Eastern Europe	2
Multiple Positionalities of a Researcher	2
No Limit on Terms Served?	2
Organizational Strength and Authoritarian Durability in Cambodia	2
Assessing Socialist Past and Sociodemographic Present	2
Sino-Russian Relations from the Perspective of National Role Theory	2
Elections, Succession, and Legitimacy in Ukraine	2
Networked Public Diplomacy	2
The Digital Contestation of Racialized Nationhood in Russia	2
The Defending “Defenders”	2
Ukrainian Researchers in a War Documentation Project	2
Against Putin and Corruption, for Navalny and the “Revolution”?	2
Gendering Violence in the Age of Anti-Genderism	2
The Soviet Pillar of Belonging	2
Between Loyalty and Opposition	2
A Bottom-Up Analysis of Societal Belief in Judicial Independence in Russia	1
Class, Conflict, and Power between Hegemony and Critical Knowledge	1
ICT Use and Entrepreneurial Mobilization of Chinese Grassroots Activists in and beyond Cyberspace	1
The Way Home, or the Way to Prison? Gender Legacies and Anti-War Protest in Russia	1
Constitutional Amendments, Democratic Resilience, and the Threat of Political Regime Change	1
“We Will Die as Free People”	1
Gender Egalitarianism of Recent Emigrants from Russia	1
Targets and Resources	1
Everyday Bribery in North Korea as Moral Economy	1
Define a Dragon	1
International Policy Transfer in Post-Communist States	1
Escaping the Long Shadow of Homo Sovieticus	1
A Not-So-Simple Noodle Story	1

Immersion and Distancing	1
Collective Action, Memories of 1989, and Social Media	1
Supporting the War in Ukraine Compared to the Annexation of Crimea in Russia’s Bureaucratic Texts	1
Institutionalizing Electoral Malpractice	1
“Competitive Rent-Seeking” in the Kim Jong Un Era of North Korea	1
Media Literacy and the Interpretation of the War—A Study of Uzbekistani Youth’s Perceptions on the Russia-Ukraine War	1
Introduction to the Special Issue on Protest and Authoritarian Reaction in Belarus	1
Using the Pandemic as a Pretext	1
Reframing Reflexivity	1
Communist Legacy, Anti-Elite Sentiments, and Modernization Theory	1
Explaining Support for Russian Narratives about the Events in Ukraine among Japanese Scholars and Intellectuals in 2014–19	1
Finding Space for Activism	1
Songs for Ordinary People	1
Displays of Statehood	1
Russian Foreign Policy Research and War in Ukraine	1