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 2021-04-01 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