Post-Soviet Affairs

2013 - 2025

Current editor(s): Timothy Frye

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Volume 41, issue 2, 2025

If you do not change your behavior: preventive repression in Lithuania under Soviet rule pp. 99-124

Eugenia Nazrullaeva and Mark Harrison

The big brothers: measuring influence of large firms on electoral mobilization in Russia pp. 125-141

Viktoriia Poltoratskaia

Measuring and validating the Ukrainian ethnic coherence instrument pp. 142-160

Scott Feinstein

“Did it have to come to this?” three images of Vladimir Putin’s attitudes toward Ukraine pp. 161-180

George W. Breslauer

Volume 41, issue 1, 2025

Public opinion toward Russia’s war against Ukraine: investigating wartime attitudes in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan pp. 1-24

Hannah S. Chapman and Raushan Zhandayeva

Popular conservatisms and the structure of Russian society pp. 25-41

Anna A. Dekalchuk, Ivan S. Grigoriev and Regina Smyth

Dissecting Putin’s regime ideology pp. 42-63

Maria Snegovaya and Jade McGlynn

Two statisms of Putin’s ideology: from proclamations of patriotic values to welfare promises of wartime mobilization pp. 64-82

Ivan Fomin

A hidden form of mass event: the law, politics, and practice of single pickets in Russia pp. 83-97

Nicole M. Daphnis

Volume 40, issue 6, 2024

Authoritarian succession, rules, and conflicts: Tokayev’s gambit and Kazakhstan’s bloody January of 2022 (Qandy Qantar) pp. 429-451

Gaziz Abishev, Bakhytzhan Kurmanov and Zhaxylyk Sabitov

“You should care by prohibiting all this obscenity”: a public policy analysis of the Russian law banning medical and legal transition for transgender people pp. 452-471

Yana Kirey-Sitnikova

Effects of a coup attempt on public attitudes under autocracy: quasi-experimental evidence from Russia pp. 472-480

Alexei Zakharov, Ora John Reuter, Vladimir Shuklin and Denis Volkov

State pranking: deceit and humor in Russia-West relations pp. 481-499

Stanislav Budnitsky

Corruption, development, and the state in Putin’s Russia pp. 500-525

Alexander Strakhov

Volume 40, issue 5, 2024

Do reforms reduce corruption perceptions? Evidence from police reform in Ukraine pp. 345-361

Grigore Pop-Eleches and Graeme Robertson

God is not back: the long-term effects of Soviet secularism pp. 362-382

Liu Peng

Russia’s war strategy: what Chechnya suggests for Ukraine pp. 383-400

Marat Iliyasov and Yoshiko M. Herrera

The framing of politics in a Ukrainian comedy show: a populist appeal? pp. 401-427

Natalya Ryabinska

Volume 40, issue 4, 2024

The regional dimension of Russia’s resilience during its war against Ukraine: an introduction pp. 243-249

Ekaterina Paustyan and Irina Busygina

The sources of territorial resilience in Putin’s Russia pp. 250-261

Irina Busygina

Federalism at war: Putin’s blame game, regional governors, and the invasion of Ukraine pp. 262-277

Stanislav Klimovich

“We don’t abandon our own people”: public rhetoric of Russia’s governors during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine pp. 278-295

Nikita Khokhlov

Elite cohesion and resilience of the Russian regions: the case of Belgorod Oblast pp. 296-312

Ekaterina Paustyan

Russian regions in wartime: fiscal and economic effects of the Russo-Ukrainian war pp. 313-325

Andrey Yushkov and Michael Alexeev

Authoritarian welfare and resilience: politics of child benefits in Russia pp. 326-343

Gulnaz Sharafutdinova

Volume 40, issue 3, 2024

Language shift in time of war: the abandonment of Russian in Ukraine pp. 159-174

Volodymyr Kulyk

Redistributive policy and redistribution preferences: the effects of the Moscow redevelopment program pp. 175-203

Israel Marques and Alexei Zakharov

There won’t be a free Belarus without a free Ukraine: motivations of Belarusian volunteers fighting for Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian war pp. 204-221

Hana Josticova and Huseyn Aliyev

Going jingo: a classification of the wartime positions of Russia’s “systemic opposition” parties pp. 222-241

Jan Matti Dollbaum and Seongcheol Kim

Volume 40, issue 2, 2024

Our zona: the impact of decarceration and prison closure on local communities in Kazakhstan pp. 71-87

Gavin Slade and Alexei Trochev

Historical consciousness and the consolidation of the opposition: uses of the history of revolution and dissent in Russian protest art, 2008–2012 pp. 88-104

Nadezda Petrusenko

Presidential popularity and international crises: an assessment of the rally-‘round-the-flag effect in Russia pp. 105-118

Margit Bussmann and Natalia Iost

Rainfall variability and labor allocation in Uzbekistan: the role of women’s empowerment pp. 119-138

Vladimir Otrachshenko, Olga Popova and Nargiza Alimukhamedova

Voices of the Caucasus: mapping knowledge production on the Caucasus region pp. 139-158

Lala Jumayeva, Aleksey Gunya, Mark Youngman, Lidia Kurbanova and Nino Kemoklidze

Volume 40, issue 1, 2024

Life through grey-tinted glasses: how do audiences in Latvia psychologically respond to Sputnik Latvia’s destruction narratives of a failed Latvia? pp. 1-18

Aiden Hoyle, Charlotte Wagnsson, Thomas E. Powell, Helma van den Berg and Bertjan Doosje

The best among the connected (men): promotion in the Russian state apparatus pp. 19-38

Guzel Garifullina

Dominant party and co-ethnic vote in Russia’s ethnic republics pp. 39-55

Olga Avdeyeva

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the strengthening of Ukrainian identity among former Soviet immigrants from Ukraine: Israel as a case study pp. 56-70

Svetlana Chachashvili-Bolotin

Volume 39, issue 6, 2023

Authoritarian media and foreign protests: evidence from a decade of Russian news pp. 391-405

Yana Otlan, Yulia Kuzmina, Aleksandra Rumiantseva and Katerina Tertytchnaya

Transitional justice options for post-war Russia pp. 406-419

Monika Nalepa and Thomas F. Remington

From mercenary to legitimate actor? Russian discourses on private military companies pp. 420-439

Karen Philippa Larsen

The politics of bank failures in Russia pp. 440-461

Zuzana Fungáčová, Alexei Karas, Laura Solanko and Laurent Weill

Omnibalancing in China-Russia relations: regime survival and the specter of domestic threats as an impetus for bilateral alignment pp. 462-486

Björn Alexander Düben

Volume 39, issue 5, 2023

A blind and militant attachment: Russian patriotism in comparative perspective pp. 309-328

Michael Alexeev and William Pyle

The willingness of Ukrainians to fight for their own country on the eve of the 2022 Russian invasion pp. 329-346

Oleksandr Reznik

Truth with a Z: disinformation, war in Ukraine, and Russia’s contradictory discourse of imperial identity pp. 347-365

Vera Tolz and Stephen Hutchings

Putinism beyond Putin: the political ideas of Nikolai Patrushev and Sergei Naryshkin in 2006–20 pp. 366-389

Martin Kragh and Andreas Umland

Volume 39, issue 4, 2023

Perceptions of the past in the post-Soviet space pp. 223-256

Kristin M. Bakke, Kit Rickard and John O'Loughlin

Commitment problems and the failure of the Minsk process: the second-order commitment challenge pp. 257-272

Paul D’Anieri

Building voting coalitions in electoral authoritarian regimes: a case study of the 2020 constitutional reform in Russia pp. 273-290

Paul Chaisty and Stephen Whitefield

Saving lives or saving the economy? Support for the incumbent during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia pp. 291-307

Kirill Chmel, Aigul Klimova and Nikita Savin

Volume 39, issue 3, 2023

How the internet and social media reduce government approval: empirical evidence from Russian regions pp. 121-154

Dina Rosenberg and Eugenia Tarnikova

Demographic and attitudinal legacies of the Armenian genocide pp. 155-172

Max Schaub

The art of partial commitment: the politics of military assistance to Ukraine pp. 173-194

Alexander Lanoszka and Jordan Becker

“Killing nature—killing us”: “Cultural threats” as a fundamental framework for analyzing Indigenous movements against mining in Siberia and the Russian North pp. 195-212

Andrey Plotnitskiy and Arnab Roy Chowdhury

Is Putin’s popularity (still) real? A cautionary note on using list experiments to measure popularity in authoritarian regimes pp. 213-222

Timothy Frye, Scott Gehlbach​, Kyle L. Marquardt and Ora John Reuter

Volume 39, issue 1-2, 2023

Exogenous shock and Russian studies pp. 1-9

Vladimir Gel’man

Plus ça change: getting real about the evolution of Russian studies after 1991 pp. 10-26

Regina Smyth

Methods in Russian studies: overview of top political science, economics, and area studies journals pp. 27-37

Lanabi La Lova

Survey research in Russia: in the shadow of war pp. 38-48

Bryn Rosenfeld

Fear of punishment as a driver of survey misreporting and item non-response in Russia and its neighbors pp. 49-59

William M. Reisinger, Marina Zaloznaya and Byung-Deuk Woo

Credibility revolution and the future of Russian studies pp. 60-69

Alexander Libman

Branching out or inwards? The logic of fractals in Russian studies pp. 70-85

Tomila Lankina

On double miss in Russian studies: can social and political psychology help? pp. 86-91

Gulnaz Sharafutdinova

Political ethnography and Russian studies in a time of conflict pp. 92-100

Jeremy Morris

Critical approaches and research on inequality in Russian studies: the need for visibility and legitimization pp. 101-107

Guzel Yusupova

Rise and fall: social science in Russia before and after the war pp. 108-120

Margarita Zavadskaya and Theodore Gerber