Post-Soviet Affairs

Papers
(The median citation count of Post-Soviet Affairs 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.)
ArticleCitations
Activism in exile: how Russian environmentalists maintain voice after exit40
Building voting coalitions in electoral authoritarian regimes: a case study of the 2020 constitutional reform in Russia26
Omnibalancing in China-Russia relations: regime survival and the specter of domestic threats as an impetus for bilateral alignment25
Fear of punishment as a driver of survey misreporting and item non-response in Russia and its neighbors20
A blind and militant attachment: Russian patriotism in comparative perspective19
The art of partial commitment: the politics of military assistance to Ukraine17
Putinism beyond Putin: the political ideas of Nikolai Patrushev and Sergei Naryshkin in 2006–2015
From mercenary to legitimate actor? Russian discourses on private military companies13
Presidential popularity and international crises: an assessment of the rally-‘round-the-flag effect in Russia12
Political foundations of state support for civil society: analysis of the distribution of presidential grants in Russia12
Authoritarian succession, rules, and conflicts: Tokayev’s gambit and Kazakhstan’s bloody January of 2022 ( Qandy Qantar )11
Still winners and losers? Studying public opinion’s geopolitical preferences in the association agreement countries (Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine)11
Effects of a coup attempt on public attitudes under autocracy: quasi-experimental evidence from Russia11
Is Putin’s popularity (still) real? A cautionary note on using list experiments to measure popularity in authoritarian regimes10
“We don’t abandon our own people”: public rhetoric of Russia’s governors during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine10
Branching out or inwards? The logic of fractals in Russian studies9
Truth with a Z: disinformation, war in Ukraine, and Russia’s contradictory discourse of imperial identity9
Making sense of the January 2022 protests in Kazakhstan: failing legitimacy, culture of protests, and elite readjustments9
Ethnic intermarriage in Russia: the tale of four cities8
The buck stops elsewhere: authoritarian resilience and the politics of responsibility for COVID-19 in Russia8
Composition of the ruling elite, incentives for productive usage of rents, and prospects for Russia’s limited access order8
On double miss in Russian studies: can social and political psychology help?7
Antisemitism in Russia: evaluating its decline and potential resurgence7
“Killing nature—killing us”: “Cultural threats” as a fundamental framework for analyzing Indigenous movements against mining in Siberia and the Russian North7
Measuring and validating the Ukrainian ethnic coherence instrument6
Belarusian public opinion and the 2020 uprising6
The big brothers: measuring influence of large firms on electoral mobilization in Russia6
Social sanctions and violent mobilization: lessons from the Crimean Tatar case6
Who cares about sanctions? Observations from annual reports of European firms6
The politics of bank failures in Russia6
If you do not change your behavior: preventive repression in Lithuania under Soviet rule6
Exogenous shock and Russian studies5
Dissecting Putin’s regime ideology5
Dominant party and co-ethnic vote in Russia’s ethnic republics5
Producing state capacity through corruption: the case of immigration control in Russia5
Beyond “hybrid warfare”: a digital exploration of Russia’s entrepreneurs of influence5
Going jingo: a classification of the wartime positions of Russia’s “systemic opposition” parties5
Rise and fall: social science in Russia before and after the war5
Perceptions of the past in the post-Soviet space5
Demographic and attitudinal legacies of the Armenian genocide4
Understandings of democracy and “good citizenship” in Ukraine: utopia for the people, participation in politics not required4
Populism for the ambivalent: anti-polarization and support for Ukraine’s Sluha Narodu party4
Dysfunctional orders: Russia’s rubbish protests and Putin’s limited access order4
Mixed signals: what Putin says about gender equality4
Hybrid surveillance capitalism: Sber’s model for Russia’s modernization3
The geopolitical orientations of ordinary Belarusians: survey evidence from early 20203
Voices of the Caucasus: mapping knowledge production on the Caucasus region3
The Belarus crisis: people, protest, and political dispositions2
Parade, plebiscite, pandemic: legitimation efforts in Putin’s fourth term2
Historical consciousness and the consolidation of the opposition: uses of the history of revolution and dissent in Russian protest art, 2008–20122
Our zona : the impact of decarceration and prison closure on local communities in Kazakhstan2
Do reforms reduce corruption perceptions? Evidence from police reform in Ukraine2
Political ethnography and Russian studies in a time of conflict2
Redistributive policy and redistribution preferences: the effects of the Moscow redevelopment program2
Public opinion toward Russia’s war against Ukraine: investigating wartime attitudes in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan2
Rainfall variability and labor allocation in Uzbekistan: the role of women’s empowerment2
Transitional justice options for post-war Russia2
The willingness of Ukrainians to fight for their own country on the eve of the 2022 Russian invasion1
Authoritarian media and foreign protests: evidence from a decade of Russian news1
Anti-opposition crackdowns and protest: the case of Belarus, 2000–20191
State, business, and the political economy of modernization: introduction1
Federalism at war: Putin’s blame game, regional governors, and the invasion of Ukraine1
How the internet and social media reduce government approval: empirical evidence from Russian regions1
The best among the connected (men): promotion in the Russian state apparatus1
US-Russian partnerships in science: working with differences1
Ethnic stacking in the Russian armed forces? Findings from a leaked dataset1
“All of Belarus has come out onto the streets”: exploring nationwide protest and the role of pre-existing social networks1
Elite cohesion and resilience of the Russian regions: the case of Belgorod Oblast1
God is not back: the long-term effects of Soviet secularism1
“Did it have to come to this?” three images of Vladimir Putin’s attitudes toward Ukraine1
Two statisms of Putin’s ideology: from proclamations of patriotic values to welfare promises of wartime mobilization1
Credibility revolution and the future of Russian studies1
Polycentric crisis response and societal resilience: how local communities address internal displacement in Ukraine due to the Russian full-scale invasion1
The future has to wait: 5G in Russia and the lack of elite consensus1
You are what you read: media, identity, and community in the 2020 Belarusian uprising1
Commitment problems and the failure of the Minsk process: the second-order commitment challenge1
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