OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Problems of Post-Communism 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Ukrainization and the Effect of Russian Language on the Web: The Google Trends Case Study	45
Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories in Southeast Europe: (Non-)Believers, Social Network Bubbles, and the Discourse of Blame	38
Russia’s Minority Institutions, Ethnic Boundaries, and Social-Humanitarian Work: A Case of Collective Responsibility?	23
The Reaction of Foreign Manufacturing Corporations Operating in Russia to the New Sanctions that Followed the Outbreak of the Russia–Ukraine Military Conflict	19
Rethinking “Transition” in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union Through the Lens of Disability	19
From Patriotic Education to Militarist Indoctrination—Disciplinary Power and Silent Resistance in Russia after the Onset of the War against Ukraine	17
Adding Insult to Injury? Status Denial, Resentment, and the Foundations of Russian Foreign Policy	17
Constitutional Conventions in Central Europe: Insights from Experts	17
Russia’s Loans as a Means of Geoeconomic Competition in Africa and Latin America	16
Colonial Redux: Explaining the Dominance of Russo-Centric Narratives About the North Caucasus	15
Global Ranking of Expertise about Russia	14
A Collapsed Bridge: Most-Híd’s Social Embeddedness and Campaign Messages during the 2020 Parliamentary Election in Slovakia	12
COVID-19 in Central Asia: (De-)Securitization of a Health Crisis?	11
Eurasia’s de Facto States after Russia’s Attack on Ukraine: Client Reactions to Patron Decline	11
The Night Wolves: Evidence of Russian Sharp Power and Propaganda from the Victory Roads’ Itinerary	10
Trust and Political Attitudes of Public Service Media Audiences in a Polarized Society: The Case of Czech Television	10
Takeover by Stealth: The Curious Case of Russia’s Belarus Policy	8
The Narrow Definition of Genocide & Its Role in Investigating and Prosecuting Charges of Genocide in Romania	8
Russia as a Norm Entrepreneur: Crimea and Humanitarian Intervention	8
Regime, Climate, and Region in Transition: Russian Participation in the Arctic Council	7
The Politics of Pseudoscience: Power and Knowledge in Contemporary Russia	6
Morphological Analysis of Narratives of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict in Western Academia and Think-Tank Community	6
Change without Change: Remaking Mental Health Advocacy in Bulgaria	6
“The Last Push from the South?” Explaining the Spread of Russia’s Cossack Movement	6
Environmental Challenges and Political Regime Transition: The Role of Historical Legacies and the European Union in Eurasia	6

Securitization of Immigration in the Czech Republic and Its Impact on the Czech Migration Policy: Experts’ Perceptions	6
Offsetting Audience Costs: Intra-Regime Bargaining during Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine	5
Legitimacy and Authoritarian Decline: The Internal Dynamics of Hybrid Regimes	4
Strong Leaders in the Former Soviet Union: Successful or Simply Authoritarian?	4
Silent Dissent: Exploring Russian Civic Activism as a Form of Opposition to the War in Ukraine	4
Environmental Regionalism and International Organizations: Implications for Post-Communism	4
Divergent Frontiers: Contrasting Russia’s Strategic Culture Toward the Baltics and Ukraine and the Implications for NATO	4
Getting Central and Eastern Europe Right? How Greater Academic Pluralism Would Improve Collective Knowledge-Building in Democratization Studies	3
Chained by One Chain: Mechanisms of Electoral Mobilization at the Local Level in the Ethnic Republics of Russia	3
Local Initiatives: A Historical Analysis of the Creation of Memorial Museums of the Gulag in (Post-)Soviet Russia	3
Impact of Industrial Change on Skills during the Economic Transition in Central and Eastern Europe	3
Why It Matters What Autocrats Say: Assessing Competing Theories of Propaganda	3
Managing Ethnic Diversity in Post-Soviet Context: The Cases of Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan	3
Varieties of Illiberal Backlash in Central Europe	3
Religion, Nation, State, and Anti-Gender Politics in Georgia and Ukraine	3
Framing the Polish-Belarusian Border in 2021. The Case of Public Service Television (TVP)	3
Exploring Religiosity among Kyrgyz Migrants in the United States	3
Reproductive Injustice and Genetic Counseling in the Socialist Politics of Disability	3
Routing or Rerouting Europe? The Civilizational Mission of Anti-Gender Politics in Eastern Europe	3
The 2015 “Religious Turn” in Poland’s Foreign Policy and Foreign Aid	3
Painful Moments and Realignment: Explaining Ukraine’s Foreign Policy, 2014–2022	3
Governing the Economy Under Populist Rule: The Cases of Hungary and Poland	2
I’m Angry! Disability Protests in Post-Communist Poland	2
Recognition of the EU’s Actorness in the Karabakh Peace Process by Azerbaijan	2
“Eastern Opening” Policy as Political Marketing: Populism and Hungary’s Relations with China under the Orbán Government	2
Diminishing Justice and Third-Party Intervention: Explaining Russia’s Impartial Stance During the 2020 Karabakh War	2
Russia’s Domestication of Disability Inclusion	2
Precarious Organizational Professionalization and Civic Engagement in the South Caucasus	2
From the Chicago Boys to Hjalmar Schacht: The Trajectory of the (Neo)liberal Economic Expertise in Russia	2
What Does the Mufti Say? Internal and Public Debates about Islam in Russia	2
The Symphony is Over? The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Russian Orthodox Church–State Relations	2
Contingent Authoritarian Regionalism: From Autocratic Regime Challenges to CSTO Collective Signaling?	1
Revolution or Evolution? Continuity and Change in Cleavages and Issues in Czech Politics	1
Tacit Skills of Return Migrants to Poland and Lithuania from the UK: Twenty Years After the May 2004 EU Enlargement	1
Undivided Ukraine: Evidence of Rallying Effects and an Emerging National Consensus	1
Alla Pugacheva: Russian High-Profile Celebrity As a Mediator of Anti-War Sentiment	1
Countering National-Level Populism with Local Politics? Broadening Participatory Processes in Budapest in Illiberal Hungary	1
The Spoken and “Unspoken” Political Agenda in the Virtual Space of Russian Muslims	1
Interrelation between Institutional Trust, Satisfaction of Economy, and Corruption Perception	1
Russia’s Case for War against Ukraine: Legal Claims, Political Rhetoric, and Instrumentality in a Fracturing International Order	1
From Decentralization to Coordination: The Evolution of Russian Paradiplomacy (1991 – 2021)	1
The Formation of Religious Authority Among Central Asian Mullahs in Russia: Questions of Duty and Loyalty in a Muslim Migration Context	1
Social Mobilization in Belarus - The Polish Perspective	1
Shaping Digital Sovereignty in Russia: Actors and Debates	1
The Politics of Giving Voice: Media Framing of Extremist Groups in the 2010 Pride Parade in Serbia	1
Electoral Overhaul Under the Principle of “Patriots Governing Hong Kong”: Implications for Pro-China Governing Coalition Re-building	1
Economic Discontent and Anti-System Political Parties in the Czech Republic	1
Highlanders and Highland Communities of the North Caucasus in the Сenter-Periphery System	1
Natural Allies? External Governance and Environmental Civil Society Organizations in the EU’s Eastern Partnership	1
Electoral Gap and the Opportunity for Democratic Decline in Post-Communist Europe	1

Spatio-Temporal Reshaping of Collective Memory in Chechnya	1
Stalin’s Terror, the Gulag, and Soviet Repression in Russia’s Museums: Editorial Introduction	1
Chechen Nation-Building under Kadyrov: A Belated “ Korenizatsiya” ?	1
The Geopolitical Chess Game: Ukraine’s Interactions with the EU and Russia at the Onset of the War in Donbas	1
(Not-So-) Radicals: Debating Moderate Salafism in Russia	1
Values Education, the Family, and Youth in Tajikistan: Building Docile Subjects	1
Russia’s Not-So-Secure Food Security	1
Conspiracy, Propaganda, or ‘Fake News’? How YouTube Audiences Responded to RT Coverage of COVID-19	1
The Muftis and the Myths: Constructing the Russian “Church for Islam”	1
Population Dynamic and Brokers’ Credibility: Explaining the Limited Use of Electoral Clientelism in Poor Roma Communities	1
The Dis/Articulation of Anti-Gender Politics in Eastern Europe: Introduction	1
The Role of Religion in Moldovan Populist Mobilization Strategies: A Competition between Traditional and Religious Values?	1
Ideology Strikes Back: China’s Lessons of the Soviet Collapse, 1992–2022	1
Evading Transparency, Doubting Democracy, Dreaming Big: Grassroots Perspectives on Science Governance in Russia	1
Before and After the Fall of Communism: The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and Soviet Foreign Policy in 1939–1940 in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian Textbooks	1
Protecting Their Own: Brokers and Informality in Real-Life Corrupt Transactions in the Case of Slovak Healthcare	1
Russian “Gay Propaganda Law”: A Comprehensive Qualitative Analysis of the Legislation and Case Law	1
Shifting Sands: Uncovering the Struggle for World War II Memory in Kazakhstan	1
Does Social Pension Help Boost Political Trust in Rural China? Exploring the Association between the New Rural Pension Scheme Enrollment and Residents’ Trust in Local Government	1