Post-Soviet Affairs

2013 - 2025

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Volume 41, issue 6, 2025

When the party line changes: state media, immigration, and public opinion in Russia pp. 521-543

John Overstreet, Olivia Jin, William Pyle and Kristina Sargent

Neoliberal authoritarianism and the partial decriminalization of sex work in Kazakhstan pp. 544-572

Hélène Thibault

Two implications of survey research mode during war: evidence from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine pp. 573-592

Aaron Erlich

Want to be heard: survey participation in Russia before and during the war pp. 593-610

Marina Vyrskaia, Andrey Tkachenko and Nadezhda Martynova

Central bank communication during the war: the case of the National Bank of Ukraine pp. 611-642

Magdalena Szyszko, Aleksandra Rutkowska and Olena Motuzka

Volume 41, issue 5, 2025

The local and regional dimension of Ukraine’s resilience during Russia’s full-scale invasion: an introduction pp. 401-410

Inna Melnykovska and Sarah Wilson Sokhey

Ukrainian decentralization under martial law: challenges for regional and local self-governance pp. 411-435

Maryna Rabinovych, Tymofii Brik, Andrii Darkovich, Valentyn Hatsko and Myroslava Savisko

Polycentric crisis response and societal resilience: how local communities address internal displacement in Ukraine due to the Russian full-scale invasion pp. 436-458

Oleksandra Keudel and Oksana Huss

Does decentralization boost Ukrainian resilience? The role of local authorities in supporting internally displaced persons pp. 459-477

Valentyna Romanova

From reconfiguring the urban space to resisting Russia’s war: local civic engagement in Ukraine since 2014 pp. 478-497

Sophie Schmäing

The effect of democratic participation on public goods provision: evidence from local governments in Ukraine pp. 498-520

Isha Banerjee, Paula Ganga, Nadiia Kasianenko, Aliaksei Miadzvedz, Sarah Wilson Sokhey and Steven Van De Laarschot

Volume 41, issue 4, 2025

The invisible front: Ukraine’s IT army and the evolution of cyber resistance pp. 263-288

Anna Lysenko and Seva Gunitsky

Pro-war hardline influencers in Putin’s regime in the context of Russia’s re-invasion of Ukraine pp. 289-310

Martin Laryš

The spillover effect of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: labor response in a neighboring economy pp. 311-347

Dinara Alpysbayeva, Dana Bazarkulova and Galiya Sagyndykova

Central Asian regionalism in the 1990s: order, familiarization, and spotlighting pp. 348-375

Filippo Costa Buranelli

Multi-purpose populist policymaking in practice: the Polish academic evaluation reform pp. 376-399

Barbara Maria Piotrowska, Izabela Szkurłat and Magdalena Szydłowska

Volume 41, issue 3, 2025

Militarization of history and mnemonic habits in Putin’s Russia: pedagogy of war pp. 181-198

Valentina Feklyunina, Samuel Robertshaw and James Bilsland

Ethnic stacking in the Russian armed forces? Findings from a leaked dataset pp. 199-218

Jesse Driscoll, David Sichinava and Christofer Berglund

Small state as order-maker: the case of Kazakhstan’s Eurasian Union project pp. 219-241

Birzhan Bakumbayev

Inequality, poverty, and child benefits: evidence from a natural experiment pp. 242-262

Piotr R. Paradowski and Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz

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