OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Communist and Post-Communist Studies is 2. 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
Political Positioning of Religious Institutions in Comparative Perspective	7
The Long Shadow Cast by Communism over Women’s Political Representation	7
The Language of the Witness, the Language of the Researcher	7
Debt-Based Trade, Social Norms, and Informality in Uzbekistan	6
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
Communist Social Policy	5
Lukashenka’s Constitutional Plebiscite and the Polarization of Belarusian Society	5
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
Introduction to the Special Issue on Authoritarian Resilience of Communist Regimes in Asia	4
Legitimizing Putin’s Regime	4
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

A Least Expected Ally?	3
Measuring Civil Society	3
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
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
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