The September issue is now online! Featuring a special section on "Emergency Response Research and Documentation in Comparative Perspective," with guest ed.s Natalia Otrishchenko and Anna Wylegała The section draws on the experience of Polish and Ukrainian research teams following Feb 2022. (1/2)

🚨Announcing the CPCS Global Collaborative Research Award. 🚨 The award is unique in recognizing and promoting cross-regional collaboration in published research on the communist or post-communist world. More details are 👇 online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/pages/g...

New in Advance Articles (Open Access): Proxy Games and Freezing Conflict: Trilateral Identifications, Fear, and Agency in Russia-Georgia Relations Post-Crimea by Julie Wilhelmsen & Salome Minesashvili online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...

New in Advance Articles: Media Literacy and the Interpretation of the War—A Study of Uzbekistani Youth’s Perceptions on the Russia-Ukraine War by Mukhammadsodik Donaev doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles (🚨Open Access🚨): The Birth of Collective Action Out of Influencer Culture?: Individual Visibility and Power Dynamics in the Feminist Anti-War Resistance by Daniil Zhaivoronok doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Excellent transparency of the journal. I wish all journals published such informative reports. @cpcs.bsky.social 👍

The CPCS Editor's Report 2025 is now available for download: drive.google.com/file/d/1qo-S... A short highlight thread: 🔸2024 Impact Factor ↗️ 1.3 🔸2024 Immediacy Index ↗️ 1.1 🔸2024 Scopus CiteScore ↗️ 2.4 (1/9)

Last minute course prep? We got you covered.

New in Advance Articles: It’s a Matter of Time: The Relationship Between the Duration of Residence and Quality of Neighborhood Relations in a Polish Late-Socialist Block of Flats by Lucyna Błażejczyk-Majka, Marek Nowak, Przemysław Pluciński www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New in Advance Articles: Text-as-Data Methods to Study Mass-Media Manipulations in Autocracies by Lanabi La Lova (@lanabi.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Teaching on nationalism, regime type, authoritarian institutions, social movements or area studies this year? Check out the CPCS Reading List, updated for Aug. 2025, containing articles from @cpcs.bsky.social from 2015-2025 categorized by region and by thematic area. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

For those of you working on your fall syllabus: we present the updated CPCS Reading Lists, containing curated lists of articles published in Communist and Post-Communist Studies over the last ten years (2015-2025), categorized by region and by thematic area. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Recently published in the June issue: Self-Governing Factory: The Solidarity Revolution at the Enterprise Level and the Origins of Poland’s Market Reforms, 1980–81 Available by Kaspar Pucek Free to access for one week. doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Attending #ICCEES2025? Reach out to Editor-in-Chief Paul Goode (@jpaulgoode.bsky.social) if you'd like to discuss your manuscript, and please join us for the panel on "Publishing in Academic Journals and Books" on Wednesday, July 23rd. www.myeventflo.com/event-lectur...

New in Advance Articles: Knowledge Production and Resistance in Times of War: The Case of Russian Liberal Scholars Available by Elena Pavlova doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Communist and Post-Communist Studies is now on ResearchGate! www.researchgate.net/journal/Comm...

Recently published in the June issue: ICT Use and Entrepreneurial Mobilization of Chinese Grassroots Activists in and beyond Cyberspace: A Case Study of Popular Protest in Qidong Available by Jian Lu Free to access for one week. doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Just Published in the June issue: Forging Democracy in the Flames: Strategies of Polish NGOs during the Full-Scale War in Ukraine by Paulina Pospieszna & Patrice C. McMahon Open access: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs... Abstract:

Just Published in the June issue: Explaining Support for Russian Narratives about the Events in Ukraine among Japanese Scholars and Intellectuals in 2014–19 by Sanshiro Hosaka Free to access for one week. doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: Gender Egalitarianism of Recent Emigrants from Russia: The Effect of Emigration or a Trait of a Social Group? by Veronica Kostenko, Emil Kamalov, Ivetta Sergeeva doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

The 2024 Journal Citation Report is out: the Impact Factor for CPCS increased for the 3rd year running, climbing to 1.3. The journal also had a record number of citations (897), and moved from Q3 to Q2 in Political Science and International relations.

Just Published in the June issue: Supporting the War in Ukraine Compared to the Annexation of Crimea in Russia’s Bureaucratic Texts by Jussi Lassila Open access: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: Sino-Russian Relations from the Perspective of National Role Theory: Mutual Role Expectations and Symbolic Contestation in Media Discourses by Elizaveta Priupolina doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Just Published in the June issue: Putin’s Technological Deluge: Techno-Populism, Anti-Westernism, and the Strive for Global Leadership Available by Olga Solovyeva & Ilya Yablokov Free to access for one week. doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

We've reached 2,000 follows! Thanks to our readers, authors, reviewers, editors, and of course @ucpress.bsky.social.

Just Published in the June issue: The Foundations of Russian Statehood: The Pentabasis, National History, and Civic Values in Wartime Russia by Dima Kortukov and Jullian Waller Free to access for one week. doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: Networked Public Diplomacy: How Public-Private Partnerships Have Played a Role in Securitizing Ukrainian Culture in Wartime, 2014–24 by Gabriel Porc doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: Creating Good Young Patriots: Russian Youth Leaders on Telegram and the War against Ukraine by Ian Garner and Allyson Edwards doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: Distributional Consequences of Political Freedom: Inequality in Transition Countries by Monika Wesołowska, Sławomir Kuźmar, Bartosz Totleben, Dawid Piątek doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles (Open Access): Communist Social Policy: Pension Policy in Bulgaria by Maria Ignatova-Pfarr and Carina Schmitt doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: Constitutional Amendments, Democratic Resilience, and the Threat of Political Regime Change: The Case of Slovakia by Marián Sekerák doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: Witnessing the Crisis: The Political and Ethical Challenges of Migration Regime Activist Research at the Polish-Belarusian Border Available by Justyna Straczuk doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: Historical Analogies, Nuclear Mythmaking, and Coercive Diplomacy in Putin’s Russia: Conjuring a “Sobering” Crisis Available by Valentina Feklyunina doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: Elite Narratives and State Response to Kazakhstan’s Qandy Qantar Protests by Hannah S. Chapman and Raushan Zhandayeva doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: The Language of the Witness, the Language of the Researcher: Verbal and Nonverbal Communication in “Emergency Research” by Katarzyna Jędraszczyk doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

✨Excited to share our research "Creating Good Young Patriots," which was published as an Advance Article in @cpcs.bsky.social @irgarner.bsky.social! 🔗 online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...

The June issue is online early! With articles on legitimation, techno-populism, & bureaucratic support for war in Russia; Russian narratives on Ukraine in Japan; Polish NGOs response to full-scale war; grassroots mobilization in China; and an historical study of solidarity & Poland's market reforms.

New in Advance Articles: Reframing Reflexivity: Collaborative Ethics, Collective Responsibility, and Learnings from Researching Russia’s War against Ukraine by Marnie Howlett (@marniehowlett.bsky.social) and Bohdana Kurylo (@bohdanakurylo.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently published: Polyphonic Peace: The 1989 World Festival of Youth and Students in Pyongyang by Thomas Stock Free to access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: The Role of Polish United Workers’ Party (PZPR) Officials in the Investment Process: The Case of the Small-Engine Car Factory (FSM) in the Early 1970s by Maciej Tymiński & Dariusz Standerski doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in the March issue: Socialist Retrenchment: Rural Healthcare Policies in China and Vietnam during the 1980s and 1990s by Yoel Kornreich Free to access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: Multiple Positionalities of a Researcher: The Case of Polish Researchers Interviewing Ukrainian War Refugees in Poland by Elżbieta Kwiecińska & Małgorzata Łukianow doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently published in the March issue: The Russian Federal Assembly as a Producer of Legal Restrictions, 2012–2021 by Geir Flikke Free to access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: Putting Paranoia into Practice: Information Security for Ethnographers in Authoritarian Contexts by Talia Kollek doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in the March issue: The Role of Political Communication in Protest Mobilization: A Case Study on the 1989 Anti-Communist Revolution in Timişoara by Adrian Schiffbeck & Adrian Basaraba Free to access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Why did Ukraine fail to satisfy the needs of its armed forces before 2022 when the need was clear and resources were available? Failures in Ukrainian Arms Procurement 2014–2023: The Negative Effects of Limited Access Orders (LAOs) on National Security by Tor Bukkvoll doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Thank you to our 2025 Bronze Sponsor of the ASEEES Annual Convention, Communist and Post-Communist Studies. #ASEEES25 To see all of our sponsors: buff.ly/HhVgCK2

New in Advance Articles: Perceptions and Drivers of Civic Activism: The Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Poland by Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves & Paula M. Pickering doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Why were “evil cults” able to thrive in China during the reform era despite the CCP’s repressive policies? Read about it in the March issue: State Coercive Power and the War on Cults in China by Xi Chen & Jing Xu Free to access for one week! doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: World War II Memorials and the Electoral Geography of Croatia: A Spatial Analysis by Marko Grdesic doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...