Post-Soviet Affairs

2013 - 2025

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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

Volume 37, issue 6, 2021

Mixed signals: what Putin says about gender equality pp. 507-525

Janet Elise Johnson, Alexandra Novitskaya, Valerie Sperling and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom

Democracy promotion in times of autocratization: the case of Poland, 1989–2019 pp. 526-543

Tsveta Petrova and Paulina Pospieszna

Political foundations of state support for civil society: analysis of the distribution of presidential grants in Russia pp. 544-558

Vsevolod Bederson and Andrei Semenov

The legislative role of the Russian Duma and the Kazakh Mazhilis: authoritarianism and power sharing in post-Soviet Eurasia pp. 559-577

Gerrit Krol

From failing state to strategic partner: analyzing US and NATO political elite images of Georgia and policy implications from 1991 to 2020 pp. 578-599

Natia Gamkrelidze

Volume 37, issue 5, 2021

State, business, and the political economy of modernization: introduction pp. 413-416

Jardar Østbø

Composition of the ruling elite, incentives for productive usage of rents, and prospects for Russia’s limited access order pp. 417-434

Andrei Yakovlev

Hybrid surveillance capitalism: Sber’s model for Russia’s modernization pp. 435-452

Jardar Østbø

A tale of two councils: the changing roles of the security and state councils during the transformation period of modern Russian politics pp. 453-469

Ekaterina Schulmann and Mark Galeotti

Dysfunctional orders: Russia’s rubbish protests and Putin’s limited access order pp. 470-488

Geir Flikke

The future has to wait: 5G in Russia and the lack of elite consensus pp. 489-505

Janis Kluge

Volume 37, issue 4, 2021

Producing state capacity through corruption: the case of immigration control in Russia pp. 303-317

Caress Schenk

Beyond “hybrid warfare”: a digital exploration of Russia’s entrepreneurs of influence pp. 318-335

Marlene Laruelle and Kevin Limonier

Perceptions of governance: state and non-state governance in the North Caucasus pp. 336-361

Sasha Klyachkina

Still winners and losers? Studying public opinion’s geopolitical preferences in the association agreement countries (Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine) pp. 362-382

Ángel Torres-Adán

Ethnic intermarriage in Russia: the tale of four cities pp. 383-403

Alexey Bessudnov and Christiaan Monden

Roundtable on Gulnaz Sharafutdinova’s the red mirror: putin’s leadership and russia’s insecure identity pp. 404-412

Timothy Frye, Brian D. Taylor, William Pyle, Klaus Segbers and Gulnaz Sharafutdinovae

Volume 37, issue 3, 2021

Cuckoos in the nest: the co-option of state-owned enterprises in Putin’s Russia pp. 199-221

Nikita Makarchev and Piotr Wieprzowski

Heterarchy: Russian politics between chaos and control pp. 222-241

Richard Sakwa

Rethinking the role of personal connections in the Russian labor market: getting a job as a law graduate in Russia pp. 242-260

Kathryn Hendley

Patriotic disunity: limits to popular support for militaristic policy in Russia pp. 261-275

Håvard Bækken

Sanctions and dollar dependency in Russia: resilience, vulnerability, and financial integration pp. 276-301

Erik Andermo and Martin Kragh

Volume 37, issue 2, 2021

Institutional development in transition economies – the role of institutional experience pp. 99-118

Ulrich Eydam and Irakli Gabriadze

Outsourcing social services to NGOs in Russia: federal policy and regional responses pp. 119-136

Linda J. Cook, Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Anna Tarasenko

Post-Soviet traditionalism, human capital, and fertility: the case of the North Caucasus pp. 137-154

Konstantin Kazenin and Vladimir Kozlov

Citizenship as a cornerstone of civic national identity in Ukraine pp. 155-173

Lowell Barrington

Towards a two-dimensional analytical framework for understanding Georgian foreign policy: how party competition informs foreign policy analysis pp. 174-197

Levan Kakhishvili

Volume 37, issue 1, 2021

Russia’s “impressionable years”: life experience during the exit from communism and Putin-era beliefs pp. 1-25

William Pyle

The politics of exporting higher education: Russian university branch campuses in the “Near Abroad” pp. 26-44

Maia Chankseliani

Russian “cognitive propaganda”: the case of Impressum Club in Tallinn pp. 45-64

Andrey Makarychev

Smart enough to make a difference? An empirical test of the efficacy of strategic voting in Russia’s authoritarian elections pp. 65-79

Mikhail Turchenko and Grigorii V. Golosov

Is Vladimir Putin a strong leader? pp. 80-97

Kenneth Wilson