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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Distributional Consequences of Political Freedom	15
Soviet Memories as Part of Regional Repertoires of Usable Past in Contemporary Russia	15
Migration and Soft Power	10
Religion and the Protest Movement	9
The Long Shadow Cast by Communism over Women’s Political Representation	8
Introduction to the Special Issue on Political Participation in Post-Communist Europe during the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
The Language of the Witness, the Language of the Researcher	7
Debt-Based Trade, Social Norms, and Informality in Uzbekistan	7
Political Positioning of Religious Institutions in Comparative Perspective	7
Communist Social Policy	6
Lukashenka’s Constitutional Plebiscite and the Polarization of Belarusian Society	6
Polyphonic Peace	6
How Does a Military Create a Tradition in a New Democracy?	6
The Presence of Maoism in Mexico	5
Erratum	5
Coercive Labor in the Cotton Harvest in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Uzbekistan	5
Dear Compatriots	5
Social Class and Ethnocentric Worldviews	5
Failures in Ukrainian Arms Procurement 2014–2023	4
Erratum	4
Introduction to the Special Issue on Authoritarian Resilience of Communist Regimes in Asia	4
Social and Personal Fears of the Population of Ukraine	4
Pushed against the Wall	4
The Invention of Legacy	4
Legitimizing Putin’s Regime	4

Explaining Access to Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe	4
The Effect of Election Observation	4
A Least Expected Ally?	3
Measuring Civil Society	3
Coronavirus Pandemic Response and Voter Choice	3
The Role of “Resources” in Regime Durability in Laos	3
Socialist Egalitarianism in Everyday Life of Secondary Technical Schools in Czechoslovakia during the Normalization Period (1969–89)	3
Confronting Russia	3
Witnessing the Crisis	3
Studying the Great Patriotic War in the Shadow of the Current Crisis	3
Class Analysis as Systemic Critique	2
The Political Economy of Autocratization	2
Introduction to the Special Issue on Eurasian Continuities	2
Escaping the Long Shadow of Homo Sovieticus	2
Networked Public Diplomacy	2
The Foundations of Russian Statehood	2
No Limit on Terms Served?	2
War Memories, Monumental Activism, and Regional Identity in the Arctic Borderland	2
Between Loyalty and Opposition	2
The East Is Red…Again! How the Specters of Communism and Russia Shape Central and Eastern European Views of China	2
The Soviet Pillar of Belonging	2
Gendering Violence in the Age of Anti-Genderism	2
LGBT Russians and Political Environment for Activism	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
Populism, Anti-establishment Politics, and Dimensions of Political Competition	2
Elections, Succession, and Legitimacy in Ukraine	2
Introduction to the Special Issue on Class Dynamics from Socialism to Post-Socialism	2
Organizational Strength and Authoritarian Durability in Cambodia	2
Multiple Positionalities of a Researcher	2
Varieties of Digital Authoritarianism	2
The Cossacks of Southern Russia in 21st-Century Memory Politics	2