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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Soviet Memories as Part of Regional Repertoires of Usable Past in Contemporary Russia	17
Distributional Consequences of Political Freedom	15
The Birth of Collective Action Out of Influencer Culture?	10
Migration and Soft Power	9
The Language of the Witness, the Language of the Researcher	9
Religion and the Protest Movement	8
Knowledge Production and Resistance in Times of War	7
Introduction to the Special Issue on Political Participation in Post-Communist Europe during the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
Political Positioning of Religious Institutions in Comparative Perspective	7
Lukashenka’s Constitutional Plebiscite and the Polarization of Belarusian Society	7
The Long Shadow Cast by Communism over Women’s Political Representation	7
Polyphonic Peace	6
How Does a Military Create a Tradition in a New Democracy?	6
Debt-Based Trade, Social Norms, and Informality in Uzbekistan	6
The Presence of Maoism in Mexico	5
Dear Compatriots	5
Communist Social Policy	5
Coercive Labor in the Cotton Harvest in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Uzbekistan	5
Social and Personal Fears of the Population of Ukraine	4
Legitimizing Putin’s Regime	4
Proxy Games and Freezing Conflict	4
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
Studying the Great Patriotic War in the Shadow of the Current Crisis	3
Pushed against the Wall	3
Witnessing the Crisis	3
The Foundations of Russian Statehood	3
Socialist Egalitarianism in Everyday Life of Secondary Technical Schools in Czechoslovakia during the Normalization Period (1969–89)	3
A Least Expected Ally?	3
Multiple Positionalities of a Researcher	3
The Effect of Election Observation	3
Coronavirus Pandemic Response and Voter Choice	3
Class Analysis as Systemic Critique	3
Introduction to the Special Issue on Authoritarian Resilience of Communist Regimes in Asia	3
The Invention of Legacy	3
The Role of “Resources” in Regime Durability in Laos	3
Measuring Civil Society	3
The Cossacks of Southern Russia in 21st-Century Memory Politics	2
The Political Economy of Autocratization	2
Populism, Anti-establishment Politics, and Dimensions of Political Competition	2
The Soviet Pillar of Belonging	2
Sino-Russian Relations from the Perspective of National Role Theory	2
Reframing Reflexivity	2
Elections, Succession, and Legitimacy in Ukraine	2
War and Eurasia’s Ethnic Boundaries	2
Organizational Strength and Authoritarian Durability in Cambodia	2
The Politburos of Communist Eastern Europe	2
Varieties of Digital Authoritarianism	2
Introduction to the Special Issue on Class Dynamics from Socialism to Post-Socialism	2
Gendering Violence in the Age of Anti-Genderism	2
Escaping the Long Shadow of Homo Sovieticus	2
Communist Legacy, Anti-Elite Sentiments, and Modernization Theory	2
Between Loyalty and Opposition	2
War Memories, Monumental Activism, and Regional Identity in the Arctic Borderland	2
The Digital Contestation of Racialized Nationhood in Russia	2
No Limit on Terms Served?	2
Networked Public Diplomacy	2
Introduction to the Special Issue on Eurasian Continuities	2
Assessing Socialist Past and Sociodemographic Present	2
Against Putin and Corruption, for Navalny and the “Revolution”?	2
A Not-So-Simple Noodle Story	2
The East Is Red…Again! How the Specters of Communism and Russia Shape Central and Eastern European Views of China	2
Ukrainian Researchers in a War Documentation Project	2
Define a Dragon	1
Using the Pandemic as a Pretext	1
Introduction to the Special Issue on Protest and Authoritarian Reaction in Belarus	1
Immersion and Distancing	1
Explaining Support for Russian Narratives about the Events in Ukraine among Japanese Scholars and Intellectuals in 2014–19	1
“Competitive Rent-Seeking” in the Kim Jong Un Era of North Korea	1
Targets and Resources	1
Gender Egalitarianism of Recent Emigrants from Russia	1
Market under the Radar	1

Constitutional Amendments, Democratic Resilience, and the Threat of Political Regime Change	1
“We Will Die as Free People”	1
Class, Conflict, and Power between Hegemony and Critical Knowledge	1
Killing Politics Softly	1
Russian Foreign Policy Research and War in Ukraine	1
Everyday Bribery in North Korea as Moral Economy	1
Songs for Ordinary People	1
Collective Action, Memories of 1989, and Social Media	1
A Bottom-Up Analysis of Societal Belief in Judicial Independence in Russia	1
ICT Use and Entrepreneurial Mobilization of Chinese Grassroots Activists in and beyond Cyberspace	1
International Policy Transfer in Post-Communist States	1
Informal Network as a Coping Strategy in the Climate–Livestock Relationship	1
Media Literacy and the Interpretation of the War—A Study of Uzbekistani Youth’s Perceptions on the Russia-Ukraine War	1
Supporting the War in Ukraine Compared to the Annexation of Crimea in Russia’s Bureaucratic Texts	1
Displays of Statehood	1