Post-Soviet Affairs

2013 - 2025

Current editor(s): Timothy Frye

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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

Volume 38, issue 6, 2022

Making sense of the January 2022 protests in Kazakhstan: failing legitimacy, culture of protests, and elite readjustments pp. 441-459

Diana T. Kudaibergenova and Marlene Laruelle

Populism for the ambivalent: anti-polarization and support for Ukraine’s Sluha Narodu party pp. 460-478

Konstantin Ash and Miroslav Shapovalov

Understandings of democracy and “good citizenship” in Ukraine: utopia for the people, participation in politics not required pp. 479-496

Joanna Szostek and Dariya Orlova

“You’re a disgrace to the uniform!” Lev Protiv’s challenge to the police in Moscow streets and on YouTube pp. 497-512

Gilles Favarel-Garrigues

Central planning casts long shadows: new evidence on misallocation and growth pp. 513-530

Jan Hagemejer and Joanna Tyrowicz

Volume 38, issue 5, 2022

US-Russian partnerships in science: working with differences pp. 349-365

Irina Dezhina and Elizabeth A. Wood

The buck stops elsewhere: authoritarian resilience and the politics of responsibility for COVID-19 in Russia pp. 366-385

Paul Chaisty, Christopher Gerry and Stephen Whitefield

Explaining Putin’s impunity: public sector corruption and political trust in Russia pp. 386-409

Marina Zaloznaya, Jennifer Glanville and William M. Reisinger

Building fences? sectoral immigration bans in Russian regions pp. 410-426

Song Ha Joo

Russia’s return to Africa: a renewed challenge to the West? pp. 427-439

Roger E. Kanet and Dina Moulioukova

Volume 38, issue 4, 2022

Sovereigntism vs. anti-corruption messianism: a salient post-Soviet cleavage of populist mobilization pp. 251-273

Sebastian Hoppe

Activism in exile: how Russian environmentalists maintain voice after exit pp. 274-292

Laura Henry and Elizabeth Plantan

Parade, plebiscite, pandemic: legitimation efforts in Putin’s fourth term pp. 293-311

Matthew Blackburn and Bo Petersson

Media framing of political protests – reporting bias and the discrediting of political activism pp. 312-328

Pál Susánszky, Ákos Kopper and Frank T. Zsigó

Long Soviet shadows: the nomenklatura ties of Putin elites pp. 329-348

Maria Snegovaya and Kirill Petrov

Volume 38, issue 3, 2022

Independent media under pressure: evidence from Russia pp. 155-174

Tom Paskhalis, Bryn Rosenfeld and Katerina Tertytchnaya

Antisemitism in Russia: evaluating its decline and potential resurgence pp. 175-205

Thomas Sherlock

Social sanctions and violent mobilization: lessons from the Crimean Tatar case pp. 206-221

Huseyn Aliyev

Who cares about sanctions? Observations from annual reports of European firms pp. 222-249

Denis Davydov, Jukka Sihvonen and Laura Solanko

Volume 38, issue 1-2, 2022

The Belarus crisis: people, protest, and political dispositions pp. 1-8

Olga Onuch and Gwendolyn Sasse

Anti-opposition crackdowns and protest: the case of Belarus, 2000–2019 pp. 9-25

Sasha de Vogel

“All of Belarus has come out onto the streets”: exploring nationwide protest and the role of pre-existing social networks pp. 26-42

Emma Mateo

The geopolitical orientations of ordinary Belarusians: survey evidence from early 2020 pp. 43-61

John O’Loughlin and Gerard Toal

Anti-regime action and geopolitical polarization: understanding protester dispositions in Belarus pp. 62-87

Olga Onuch and Gwendolyn Sasse

You are what you read: media, identity, and community in the 2020 Belarusian uprising pp. 88-106

Samuel A. Greene

Attitudes towards democracy and the market in Belarus: what has changed and why it matters pp. 107-124

Félix Krawatzek and Julia Langbein

Is Telegram a “harbinger of freedom”? The performance, practices, and perception of platforms as political actors in authoritarian states pp. 125-145

Mariëlle Wijermars and Tetyana Lokot

Protest, platforms, and the state in the Belarus crisis pp. 146-149

Graeme Robertson

Belarusian public opinion and the 2020 uprising pp. 150-154

Bryn Rosenfeld