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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Politics of Pseudoscience: Power and Knowledge in Contemporary Russia	36
Paradoxes of Green Transition and Developmentalism: The Case of EV Battery Production in Hungary	30
Alla Pugacheva: Russian High-Profile Celebrity As a Mediator of Anti-War Sentiment	24
The Symphony is Over? The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Russian Orthodox Church–State Relations	23
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	19
The Long-Term Governmental Parties in Post-Communist Democracies	18
Electoral Success of Independents under Authoritarianism: Evidence from Russia’s Local Elections, 2014–2018	17
Change without Change: Remaking Mental Health Advocacy in Bulgaria	16
The Dis/Articulation of Anti-Gender Politics in Eastern Europe: Introduction	15
“Eastern Opening” Policy as Political Marketing: Populism and Hungary’s Relations with China under the Orbán Government	14
Ideology Strikes Back: China’s Lessons of the Soviet Collapse, 1992–2022	12
Ukrainization and the Effect of Russian Language on the Web: The Google Trends Case Study	12
Economic Discontent and Anti-System Political Parties in the Czech Republic	12
“What We Murmur behind Their Backs”: Hidden Transcripts of the North Korean Ruling Elite	11
Governing the Economy Under Populist Rule: The Cases of Hungary and Poland	11
Framing the Polish-Belarusian Border in 2021. The Case of Public Service Television (TVP)	10
Shaping Digital Sovereignty in Russia: Actors and Debates	10
Securitization of Immigration in the Czech Republic and Its Impact on the Czech Migration Policy: Experts’ Perceptions	10
Morphological Analysis of Narratives of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict in Western Academia and Think-Tank Community	9
The Clash of Collective Memories in Postwar Chechnya	9
Offsetting Audience Costs: Intra-Regime Bargaining during Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine	8
Stalin’s Terror, the Gulag, and Soviet Repression in Russia’s Museums: Editorial Introduction	8
“The Last Push from the South?” Explaining the Spread of Russia’s Cossack Movement	7
Armenia Post-2020: From the Bridge to the Hub?	7
Understanding Russia’s Brain Drain in the 2010s	7

Environmental Challenges and Political Regime Transition: The Role of Historical Legacies and the European Union in Eurasia	7
Retrogressive Mobilization in the 2018 “Referendum for Family” in Romania	6
Eclipsing Stalin: The GULAG History Museum in Moscow as a Manifestation of Russia’s Official Memory of Soviet Repression	5
I Don’t Like It Unless It’s for Me: Voters’ Perceptions of Pork-Barrel Politics in Central and Eastern Europe	5
An Ideal President’s Personality: Understanding the Expectations of Russian Citizens	5
Foreign Policy, National Interests, and Environmental Positioning: Russia’s Post Paris Climate Change Actions, Discourse, and Engagement	4
Lessons that Lead to War: Foreign Policy Learning and Military Escalation in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict	4
Regime, Climate, and Region in Transition: Russian Participation in the Arctic Council	4
Russia as a Norm Entrepreneur: Crimea and Humanitarian Intervention	4
Undivided Ukraine: Evidence of Rallying Effects and an Emerging National Consensus	4
War and the Willingness to Resist and Fight in Ukraine	4
The Spoken and “Unspoken” Political Agenda in the Virtual Space of Russian Muslims	4
Russia’s War on Ukraine, the EU, and Its Eastern Neighborhood: Layers of Liminality	3
Instrumentalization of the Fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Politics of Moldova	3
Promoting or Shattering Populism: The Case of Political Comedy and Satire in Ukrainian Media	3
Recognition of the EU’s Actorness in the Karabakh Peace Process by Azerbaijan	3
Diminishing Justice and Third-Party Intervention: Explaining Russia’s Impartial Stance During the 2020 Karabakh War	3
Regulating Competition in the Digital Platform Economy: Russia and China Compared	3
Rooftop Exploration and the Creation of Alternative Spaces in St. Petersburg	3
From the Chicago Boys to Hjalmar Schacht: The Trajectory of the (Neo)liberal Economic Expertise in Russia	3
Social Mobilization in Belarus - The Polish Perspective	3
Russia’s War Against Ukraine: Context, Causes, and Consequences	3
Antigovernment Protests and Commitment to Democratic Principles	3
From Repression to Prevention in Central Europe: Football Anti-Hooligan Policies in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia	3
COVID-19 and Azerbaijan: Is the System Resilient Enough to Withstand the Perfect Storm?	3
Russia’s Domestication of Disability Inclusion	3
Institutional Performance and Party Cues: Their Influence on Individual Geopolitical Preferences. The Case of Moldova (2012-2019)	2
From Patriotic Education to Militarist Indoctrination—Disciplinary Power and Silent Resistance in Russia after the Onset of the War against Ukraine	2
The Reaction of Foreign Manufacturing Corporations Operating in Russia to the New Sanctions that Followed the Outbreak of the Russia–Ukraine Military Conflict	2
I’m Angry! Disability Protests in Post-Communist Poland	2
Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories in Southeast Europe: (Non-)Believers, Social Network Bubbles, and the Discourse of Blame	2
An Uneven Revival: Gendered Ethno-Regional Intersections of Religiousness in Kyrgyzstan	2
Russia’s Minority Institutions, Ethnic Boundaries, and Social-Humanitarian Work: A Case of Collective Responsibility?	2
Finding the Common Ground: Visibility, Cooperation and Tensions between Russian and Georgian Civil Society Initiatives in Tbilisi, 2023	2
How Do Local Party Systems Change after the Direct Election of Mayors? Analysis of the Institutional Reform in Lithuania	2
Depoliticization and Necropolitics: A Critical Examination of Lukashenka’s Regime	2
In Search of Lost Time? Decommunization in Ukraine, 2014 – 2020	2
Securitization of Higher Education Expansion in Authoritarian States: Uzbekistan’s Seemingly “Elite” Tertiary System	2
Constitutional Conventions in Central Europe: Insights from Experts	2
Rethinking “Transition” in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union Through the Lens of Disability	2
Legitimacy and Authoritarian Decline: The Internal Dynamics of Hybrid Regimes	2
Shifting Sands: Uncovering the Struggle for World War II Memory in Kazakhstan	2
Chekists Penetrate the Transition Economy: The KGB’s Self-Reforms during Perestroika	2
The Formation of Religious Authority Among Central Asian Mullahs in Russia: Questions of Duty and Loyalty in a Muslim Migration Context	1
A Collapsed Bridge: Most-Híd’s Social Embeddedness and Campaign Messages during the 2020 Parliamentary Election in Slovakia	1
Strong Leaders in the Former Soviet Union: Successful or Simply Authoritarian?	1
Orthodox Churches during the Pandemic in Ukraine and Georgia: Narratives and New Practices	1
Part of the Problem? The Eurasian Economic Union and Environmental Challenges in the Former Soviet Union	1
Divergent Frontiers: Contrasting Russia’s Strategic Culture Toward the Baltics and Ukraine and the Implications for NATO	1
Tacit Skills of Return Migrants to Poland and Lithuania from the UK: Twenty Years After the May 2004 EU Enlargement	1

Selective Censorship on Rightists and Leftists? An Observation and Analysis of Censored Social Media Posts in China	1
Welcomed Friend or Stranger Breaking in? Patron-Client Relations and Ontological (In)securities in Abkhazia	1
Protecting Their Own: Brokers and Informality in Real-Life Corrupt Transactions in the Case of Slovak Healthcare	1
Students’ School and Political Participation in a Former Socialist Country	1
Sustainable Development Agendas of Regional International Organizations: The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development and the Eurasian Development Bank	1
What Explains Individualism in North Korea?	1
Southeast Asia in Kazakhstan’s Omnidirectional Hedging Strategy	1
Environmental Regionalism and International Organizations: Implications for Post-Communism	1
The Muftis and the Myths: Constructing the Russian “Church for Islam”	1
Trolls Behind the Mask of Journalists: How Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Patriot Media Group Was Organized	1
Securitization and Coping Strategies of Women Sex Workers in Tajikistan	1
Politically Useful Tragedies: The Soviet Atrocities in the Historical Park(s) “Russia — My History”	1
Where the Personal is (Geo)Political: Performing Queer Visibility in Georgia in the Context of EU Association	1
The Geopolitical Chess Game: Ukraine’s Interactions with the EU and Russia at the Onset of the War in Donbas	1
Silent Dissent: Exploring Russian Civic Activism as a Form of Opposition to the War in Ukraine	1
Chechen Nation-Building under Kadyrov: A Belated “ Korenizatsiya” ?	1
Russia’s Loans as a Means of Geoeconomic Competition in Africa and Latin America	1
Russia’s Response to COVID-19: Leveraging Pre-Pandemic Data to Theorize about Public Approval	1
Conspiracy, Propaganda, or ‘Fake News’? How YouTube Audiences Responded to RT Coverage of COVID-19	1
How to Defend Romania?: Identifying Legacy and Institutional Impediments	1
(Not-So-) Radicals: Debating Moderate Salafism in Russia	1
What Does the Mufti Say? Internal and Public Debates about Islam in Russia	1
Russia’s Case for War against Ukraine: Legal Claims, Political Rhetoric, and Instrumentality in a Fracturing International Order	1
Values Education, the Family, and Youth in Tajikistan: Building Docile Subjects	1
COVID-19 as a Test for Regional Integration Resilience in the Eurasian Economic Union	1
Implementation Is the Hardest Word: Explaining Georgia’s (Non)-Compliance with European Union Acquis	1
Exposure to Immigration and Sense of Socio-Territorial Belonging: Evidence from Russia	1
Challenging the Rule of Law in Romania: The Metamorphosis of Political Discourse towards Populism	1