Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe

1996 - 2025

Current editor(s): Andrew Kilmister

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Volume 33, issue 1, 2025

Situating do-it-yourself: a hybridizing perspective from central and Eastern Europe pp. 1-14

Petr Gibas, Blanka Nyklová and Karel Šima

DIY modernity: rethinking socialist experience from the temporal perspective pp. 15-30

Zinaida Vasilyeva

Anti-kitsch, or how to make a socialist doily: DIY, folk art, and “open” materialities in late-socialist Slovakia pp. 31-45

Nicolette Makovicky

DIY and the emergent materiality of home-making on a holiday caravan site pp. 47-61

Petr Gibas, Karolína Pauknerová and Tereza Hodúlová

Commentary pp. 63-67

Reinhild Kreis

Paths (not) taken: promoting R&D in Central and Eastern Europe pp. 69-85

Alexander Strelkov, Fadi Hirzalla and Vsevolod Samokhvalov

Le sujet supposé agir: assessing local agency and structural determinacy in socialist and postsocialist Europe pp. 87-108

Alexandru Cistelecan

Framing corruption in Ukraine: a two-decade scoping review of academic and organizational perspectives pp. 109-128

Demyan Belyaev, Jean-Patrick Villeneuve and Giulia Mugellini

Coping with a crisis: the relationship between citizenship and mental health as experienced by LGBTQ population in Poland pp. 129-146

Maria Obrebska

The Albanian Left. Exploration of its paradigm of values and democracy outcomes pp. 147-165

Florian Çullhaj

The global polycrisis and the Romanian elections of 2024 pp. 167-179

Alex Cistelecan, Costi Rogozanu, Adina Marincea, Adrian Grama, Elena Trifan, Stefan Baghiu, Alexandra Mercescu and Cosmin Cercel

Annotated chronology of the Romanian political scene pp. 181-188

Alex Cistelecan

Class dynamics in the Romanian ideological landscape: the 2024 presidential elections as self-colonization pp. 189-199

Costi Rogozanu

Romania’s 2024 election crisis: neo-legionarism’s revival of the “Judeo-Bolshevism” myth and the jouissance of punishment pp. 201-209

Adina Marincea

The revenge of civil society pp. 211-219

Adrian Grama

From self-help to sovereignty: the rise of Călin Georgescu and Romania’s far-right mysticism pp. 221-233

Elena Trifan

Loony platform politics: the Romanian far-right performance and the digital dystopia of 2024 pp. 235-249

Stefan Baghiu

The Romanian Constitutional Court doing “militant democracy” (twice and more to come) pp. 251-261

Alexandra Mercescu

Emergency brake: law, history, and Romania’s constitutional crisis pp. 263-273

Cosmin Cercel

Searching for the voices of Russian colonialism in post-Soviet Central Asia pp. 275-280

István Sántha

Studies in Hungarian ethnography for a European ethnology pp. 281-283

Eszter Bartha

Political economy of Hungarian authoritarian populism: capitalists without the right kind of capital pp. 283-286

Bálint Madlovics

Émigré, exile, diaspora, and transnational movements of the Crimean Tatars: Preserving the eternal flame of Crimea pp. 286-288

Ahmet Ertan Çölgeçen

Volume 32, issue 3, 2024

Law, labour, sovereignty: one century of anti-communism in Romania pp. 513-531

Adrian Grama

The German left, identity politics and political correctness pp. 533-549

Christoph Jünke

Meme-Ing Waves: unpacking political narratives in the Romanian context pp. 551-578

Mihaela-Georgiana Mihăilescu

Understanding the concept of the nation by Georgian Marxists and their influence on the process of Georgian nation-building in the Years 1893–1917 pp. 579-598

Nino Maisuradze

Street protest in the first decade of illiberal Hungary: the case of Budapest pp. 599-617

Balázs Szabó and Ágnes Erőss

Highly educated Ukrainian migrants in Poland prior to 2022: education, work and integration efforts pp. 619-644

Sabina Kubiciel-Lodzińska and Eva A. Duda-Mikulin

Malaysia and the Balkan conflict, 1992-1995 pp. 645-662

Wan Shawaluddin Wan Hassan, Ramli Dollah, Diana Peters, Adi Jafar and Ali Maksum

Research on political participation in contemporary Albania – an overview pp. 663-680

Joakim Ekman and Gilda Hoxha

The Soviet legacy in education and culture: Albania from 1949 to 1961 pp. 681-694

Hajdi Xhixha, Dritero Arifi and Augusto Ferreros

Fame seeking mass shooters in Eastern Europe pp. 695-710

Alexei Anisin

The influence of students’ personality traits and their parents’ parenting style on Romanian students’ performance in science subjects from secondary to doctoral level pp. 711-732

Mirela Moldoveanu and Eva Milkova

Ten years of PEGIDA: a reflection on “deutsche Zustände” pp. 733-740

Seongcheol Kim

The weight of events: on charm, disenchantment, and the heritage of soviet socialist dreams pp. 741-746

Stanislav Khudzik

If cars could walk: postsocialist streets in transformation pp. 747-748

Max Holleran

Volume 32, issue 2, 2024

Making or faking capitalism? Socialist dreams and postsocialist experiences in East-Central Europe pp. 207-238

Eszter Bartha and Tibor Valuch

Normalizing capitalism: East Germans experiencing the market economy during the 1990s pp. 239-256

Clemens Villinger

Legal, illegal, either way informal: examining continuities of small-scale entrepreneurship between late socialism and postsocialism in Czechia pp. 257-277

Veronika Pehe and Petr Kupka

Post-1989 women’s struggle between career growth and everyday duties pp. 279-292

Lenka Krátká

The role of the socialist second economy experience in an entrepreneurial career after 1989 pp. 293-309

Katalin Kelemen

Changed life worlds and survival strategies in disintegration after the regime change in Hungary: a former industrial town in the shadow of the factory giant pp. 311-331

Péter Alabán

The Gypsy condition in Kiskunhalas: work, consumption, and indebtedness after socialism pp. 333-353

Chris Hann

CEEC stock markets in the post-communist era: evolutions and convergences pp. 355-369

Sophie Nivoix, Sandrine Boulerne and Daniel Rajmil

Class versus climate? Transformation conflicts in the automotive industry pp. 371-404

Klaus Dörre, Steffen Liebig, Kim Lucht and Johanna Sittel

Growing-up young adults and their social agency in migration: how Ukrainian children initiate and mediate their own migration within the family unit pp. 405-421

Luděk Jirka

Is sciencepreneurship the 21st century’s new skill? Understanding the complex interplay between business and science from the perspective of university students studying economics pp. 423-437

Katalin Csekő, Tímea Juhász and Péter Berta

Achieving an adequate minimum wage in Czechia with a little help from the EU directive pp. 439-458

Jan Bittner

“East, East, East Germany!” The (other) reunification of football fan culture and the roots of an east german exceptionalism pp. 459-475

Alexander Leistner and Alexander Mennicke

“The revolution born out of a swear”: populist humour, carnivalization, and mass protest in Romania pp. 477-498

Camil Ungureanu

The civilization state in the war against Ukraine pp. 499-512

Gergely Egedy

Volume 32, issue 1, 2024

Notice of duplicate publication: Untruthful claims, real war, dire consequences: understanding the narrative of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine pp. i-i

The Editors

A Cold War legacy of student politics and anti-communism: the contingency of Poland’s illiberal turn pp. 1-11

Tom Junes

The banning of political parties in post-Yugoslav states. Croatian and Serbian experience in using militant democracy pp. 13-24

Maciej Skrzypek

The electoral system and political parties in the municipal council elections of St. Petersburg pp. 25-36

Yury Medvedev and Inessa Tarusina

Election campaign and media exposure: explaining objective vs subjective political knowledge among first-time voters pp. 37-53

Sergiu Gherghina and Claudiu Marian

There is a reason why: Baltic return migrants’ reasons for return pp. 55-73

Kata Fredheim and Zane Varpina

War refugees from Ukraine in Poland: the welfare system in the face of New social challenges pp. 75-94

Ryszard Necel

Ideology, war, and genocide – the empirical case of Bosnia and Herzegovina pp. 95-110

Goran Basic and Zlatan Delić

National frameworks for regional paradiplomacy in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia in comparative perspective pp. 111-129

Alexander Duleba

The Central European history in constitutional preambles: state narrative and governance implications pp. 131-148

Iván Halász

Gift, purchase or mask diplomacy? Hesitant reception of China’s face masks during the first COVID-19 wave in Czech public discourse pp. 149-168

Kamila Zahradníčková and Irena Kašparová

Positive aspects of Romania’s investment environment.French stakeholders’ perspective pp. 169-185

Elena Grad-Rusu

Revisionisms revised. Does the radical right appropriate or disrupt historical narratives through revisionism?1 pp. 187-199

Tatyjana Szafonova, Balázs Trencsényi, Juraj Buzalka, Péter Apor, Klaus Neumann and Gábor Egry

Gender, generations, and communism in central and eastern europe and beyond pp. 201-203

Daria Dyakonova

A historical alternative – analysis of the state socialist experience pp. 203-206

Róbert Takács