Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe

1996 - 2024

Current editor(s): Andrew Kilmister

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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

Volume 31, issue 3, 2023

The political economy of family life among Romanian Roma: re-discovering politics in economy-related family-level decision-making processes (introduction to the theme section) pp. 483-496

Péter Berta

Ethnic belonging, kinship, and wealth: local politics of descent and group formation in a Roma community pp. 497-515

Töhötöm Szabó

The interconnectedness of marriage politics and luxury consumption: a marital biographical perspective pp. 517-531

Péter Berta

Marriage and the reproductive regime of a digitally connected Roma diaspora pp. 533-559

Juan F. Gamella and Vasile M. Muntean

Migration anxieties in Eastern Europe. Material grounds for an anti-migrant turn in a global-historical perspective? pp. 561-584

Attila Melegh and Zoltán Csányi

The Women’s Complaint: sociolegal mobilization against authoritarian backsliding following the 2020 abortion law in Poland pp. 585-605

Agnieszka Kubal

On peoples, history, and sovereignty pp. 607-627

Chris Hann

The changing world of labour in Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe before and after the 1989/90 transition pp. 629-640

Tibor Valuch

Cyber as sovereignty space: state transformation in the periphery of Europe pp. 641-654

Islam Jusufi

Sports and Physical education as servants of Politics:Physical culture in Hungary between the two world wars pp. 655-665

Ákos Cserny

Italian cultural diplomacy in Estonia during the interwar period: from the de jure recognition to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact (1921-1939) pp. 667-682

Rosario Napolitano

Differences in sustainability approaches from the mission statements of museums – the case of CEE and other European contemporary art museums pp. 683-701

Zsuzsanna Fehér and Katalin Ásványi

From strategic partner to co-aggressor: Russia’s attempts to lure Belarus into the war in Ukraine pp. 703-717

Robert Gabriel Țicălău

Volume 31, issue 2, 2023

Women and the gendered politics of work in Central and Eastern Europe, and internationally, in the twentieth century: activism, governance, and scale pp. 227-240

Alexandra Ghiț, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa and Susan Zimmermann

“An eight-hour day for women workers”: negotiating working time in the Bulgarian textile industry between international labour politics and the shop floor, 1890s to 1930s pp. 241-260

Ivelina Masheva

The treacherous trade unionist: Paraschiva B. Ion and labour activism in the Romanian tobacco sector, 1920s to 1940s pp. 261-278

Alexandra Ghiț

“The rulers are the causes of the war […] They are the reason there is no bread in our town:” women’s food riots in the Hungarian countryside, 1917–1918 pp. 279-299

Eszter Varsa

Polish women labour inspectors between the world wars: scrutinizing the workplace and mobilizing public opinion pp. 301-319

Zhanna Popova

“Millions of working housewives”: the International Co-operative Women’s Guild and household labour in the interwar period pp. 321-338

Jelena Tešija

Spurring Women to Action? Communist-led Women’s Trade Unionism Between the Hungarian Shop Floor and Top-level Internationalism, 1947 to 1959 pp. 339-362

Susan Zimmermann

Part-time work: the co-production of a contested employment model for women in Austria and internationally, 1950s to 1980s pp. 363-383

Veronika Helfert

Environmental stress, majoritarianism, and social unrest in Europe pp. 385-408

Nadia Eldemerdash, Christian B. Jensen and Steven T. Landis

“Dracunculus against the dragon”: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s public vaccination as simultaneous enactment of public health and foreign policy pp. 409-428

Péter Marton, Tamás Matura and Csendike Somogyvári

Work-life balance and parental coping patterns during home schooling as a result of Covid-19 lockdowns: empirical evidence from Bulgaria pp. 429-445

Gabriela Yordanova and Ekaterina Markova

Instrumentalizing gender: from interwar fascism to the Alt Right in Greece pp. 447-466

Rosa Vasilaki and George Souvlis

Untruthful claims, real war, dire consequences: understanding the narrative of the Russian invasion of Ukraine pp. 467-480

Yuriy Savelyev

Inventing the social in Romania 1848–1914. Networks and laboratories of knowledge pp. 481-482

Florin Poenaru

Volume 31, issue 1, 2023

In memoriam: Gáspár Miklós Tamás pp. 1-13

Gareth Dale

Multiple transformations: an introduction pp. 15-26

Maren Hachmeister, Beáta Hock, Theresa Jacobs and Oliver Wurzbacher

Volunteering and care in old age: voices from People's Solidarity in East Germany pp. 27-43

Maren Hachmeister

Biopolitics, care and the transformations of a large institution for children with disabilities in Romania from 1956 to 2015 pp. 45-66

Leyla Safta-Zecheria

From collective to association? Figurations of remembering and former state-owned enterprises in post-1989 Eastern Germany pp. 67-81

Oliver Wurzbacher

Role models versus modes of rule: the foundation of GfZK, a public-private museum in Leipzig pp. 83-94

Franciska Zólyom

Evolving networks: International sponsors of post-socialist art scenes pp. 95-108

Beáta Hock

The house for Sorbian folk art: institutional change in Sorbian folk art after 1989/90 pp. 109-126

Ines Keller and Fabian Jacobs

It could have been different. The cultural and creative sector in transformation from the perspective of arts professionals in the Sorbian ethnic minority pp. 127-146

Theresa Jacobs

Deutschland ist eins: vieles: Bilanz und Perspektiven von Transformation und Vereinigung (Germany is One Thing: Many: A Record and Perspectives of the Transformation and Unification) pp. 147-149

Michael Thomas

Das umstrittene Erbe von 1989: Zur Gegenwart eines Gesellschaftszusammenbruchs (The Contested Legacy of 1989. Contemporary Traces of a Collapsed Society) pp. 149-151

Clemens Villinger

The Postsocialist Contemporary: The Institutionalization of Artistic Practice in Eastern Europe after 1989 pp. 151-153

Izabel Galliera

The Influencing Machine: an exhibition curated by Aaron Moulton pp. 153-155

Beáta Hock

Religious statistics in Poland. Legal status, problems, challenges pp. 157-169

Sławomir Romański-Cebula

Geographies of quiescence? Social movements, panoramas of struggle and Baltic austerity politics pp. 171-199

Jokubas Salyga

Imperial dreams and the plains of Eastern Europe pp. 201-209

Georg Menz

Reflections on the Hungarian elections pp. 211-225

Adam Fabry