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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Ukrainian Researchers in a War Documentation Project	10
A Least Expected Ally?	8
Power Preservation, No Matter the Means	7
War Memories, Monumental Activism, and Regional Identity in the Arctic Borderland	7
Organizational Strength and Authoritarian Durability in Cambodia	7
Between Loyalty and Opposition	6
Policing Protest in Russia	6
The Role of “Resources” in Regime Durability in Laos	6
The East Is Red…Again! How the Specters of Communism and Russia Shape Central and Eastern European Views of China	5
Life Satisfaction and Job Insecurity	5
The Political Economy of Autocratization	5
Self-Criticism in Post-Communist Times	5
Forging Frontline Russians	4
Forging Democracy in the Flames	4
Socialism and the Modernization Hypothesis	4
Self-Governing Factory	4
“We Will Die as Free People”	4
Using the Pandemic as a Pretext	4
Soviet Memories as Part of Regional Repertoires of Usable Past in Contemporary Russia	4
A Bottom-Up Analysis of Societal Belief in Judicial Independence in Russia	4
In the Name of “Freedom” and “Democracy”	4
The Pillars of Power and Policy of Social Policymaking in Authoritarian Regimes	4
Populism, Anti-establishment Politics, and Dimensions of Political Competition	4
Perceptions and Drivers of Civic Activism	3
Who Is Purged? Determinants of Elite Purges in North Korea	3

Confronting Russia	3
Studying the Great Patriotic War in the Shadow of the Current Crisis	3
Securitization in the Shadow of Armed Conflict	3
Coronavirus Pandemic Response and Voter Choice	3
Kočner’s Judges	3
Measuring Civil Society	3
Do Successor Parties Influence Public Attitudes toward the Past? Evidence from Young Democracies	3
Define a Dragon	2
A Sense of Stalinism	2
Killing Politics Softly	2
Closer to Citizens or Ticking Boxes? Political Parties and Participatory Practices in Hungary	2
Socialist Egalitarianism in Everyday Life of Secondary Technical Schools in Czechoslovakia during the Normalization Period (1969–89)	2
Elections, Succession, and Legitimacy in Ukraine	2
Understanding Weak Local Governance in the Neoliberal City through the Case of Skopje 2014	2
The Soviet Pillar of Belonging	2
Putin’s Technological Deluge	2
Religion and the Protest Movement	2
Migration and Soft Power	2
Introduction to the Special Issue on Eurasian Continuities	2
The Long Shadow Cast by Communism over Women’s Political Representation	2
The Presence of Maoism in Mexico	1
Collective Action, Memories of 1989, and Social Media	1
Lukashenka’s Constitutional Plebiscite and the Polarization of Belarusian Society	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
Songs for Ordinary People	1
Coercive Labor in the Cotton Harvest in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Uzbekistan	1
Erratum	1
Emotional Splits and Psychologization	1
Introduction to the Special Issue on Political Participation in Post-Communist Europe during the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
“I Have Always thought that, If I Am Poor, I’m Also Supposed to Study Poorly”	1
Subnational Coercion during Aleksei Navalny’s Presidential Campaign in Russia	1
“Losers” in the Age of Democratization	1
Dear Compatriots	1
“Framing” and “Screening” the Gulag	1
Targets and Resources	1
Legitimizing Putin’s Regime	1
“Competitive Rent-Seeking” in the Kim Jong Un Era of North Korea	1
How Does a Military Create a Tradition in a New Democracy?	1
Everyday Bribery in North Korea as Moral Economy	1
Class Analysis as Systemic Critique	1
Russian Foreign Policy Research and War in Ukraine	1
Political Positioning of Religious Institutions in Comparative Perspective	1
The Role of Political Communication in Protest Mobilization	1
Supporting the War in Ukraine Compared to the Annexation of Crimea in Russia’s Bureaucratic Texts	1
Social Class and Ethnocentric Worldviews	1
Martyrological in Form, Military-Patriotic in Content	1
Polyphonic Peace	1
Survival or Crisis? Funding Distribution from Grant-Making Foundations to Grassroots Social Organizations in China	1
Debt-Based Trade, Social Norms, and Informality in Uzbekistan	1

LGBT Russians and Political Environment for Activism