Recently published: 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 Free to access for one week: online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...

Recently published: Perceptions and Drivers of Civic Activism: The Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Poland by Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves & Paula M. Pickering Free to access for one week! online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...

Recently published: World War II Memorials and the Electoral Geography of Croatia: A Spatial Analysis by Marko Grdesic Free to access for one week! online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...

Recently published: Define a Dragon: China’s History Narratives in Contemporary Russian Textbooks as Usable Past by Marharyta Fabrykant Free to access for one week! online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...

New in Advance Articles: The Way Home, or the Way to Prison? Gender Legacies and Anti-War Protest in Russia by Alexandra Novitskaya, Janet Elise Johnson, Valerie Sperling, & Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...

Recently published: Power Preservation, No Matter the Means: Populism and Conspiracy Theory as Instruments of Political Consolidation in Serbia by Vladimir Vučković, Branislav Radeljić, & Vladimir Đorđević Free to access for one week! 👇 online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...

New in Advance Articles (🔆Open Access🔆): Finding Space for Activism: Understanding Youth Activists in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in the Wake of Russia’s War Against Ukraine by Bakhytzhan Kurmanov, Brian Smith, and Caress Schenk doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently published: Dear Compatriots: New Year Speeches as Sites for Post-Soviet Political Communication Available by Adam Lenton & Akbota Karibayeva Free to access for one week! 👇 doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

The December issue is out! With research articles on: 🔸New Year speeches as post-Soviet political communication 🔸populism & conspiracy theory in Serbia 🔸China's history in Russian textbooks 🔸WWII memorials & electoral geography in Croatia 🔸civic activism in Bosnia & Poland [1/2]

Free to access for one week: From Anti-Politician Technocratism to Anti-Immigrant Nativism?: The Changes in Populist Communication of Former Czech PM Andrej Babiš by Vladimír Naxera 👉 doi.org/10.1525/cpcs... #populism #nativism #technocratism #czechia

Thank you to our 2025 ASEEES Convention Sponsors! #ASEEES25 buff.ly/XBRZyBW

CPCS is proud to be a Bronze level sponsor for #ASEEES25. If you have a manuscript that might fit the journal, Editor-in-Chief @jpaulgoode.bsky.social will be at the conference and happy to meet with prospective authors. aseees.org/convention/2...

Free to access for one week: Ownership Society of the Proletariat: Housing Privatization and Public Support in China by Zhiyuan Zhang 👉 doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: Institutionalizing Electoral Malpractice: The Case of Multi-Day Voting in Russia by Grigorii V. Golosov & Lev Osipov 👉 doi.org/10.1525/cpcs... #Russia #elections #authoritarianism

Free to access for one week: Russian Business and the Authoritarian Welfare State: Corporate Social Programs as Legitimation for Companies and the State by Ulla Pape 👉 doi.org/10.1525/cpcs... #Russia #authoritarianism #welfare #legitimation

New in Advance Articles: Melting Points: Furnace Technology at the Crossroads of Socialist and Georgian Imaginaries by Tamar Qeburia 👉 doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: Transformations in Russian Activism: Navigating Identity and Solidarity in Russia’s Anti-War Movement by Vlada Baranova #Russia #activism #feminism #decoloniality 👉 doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Free to access for one week, from the latest issue: Media Freedom, Bias, and Manipulation in the Eurasian Post-Socialist Space by Krzysztof Rybinski doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Happy to share my new article (open access) with B. Smith and C. Schenk in @cpcs.bsky.social We examine how Russia’s war has shaped youth activism in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan finding that young people’s agency and awareness of decolonialism long predated the war. online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...

Free to access for one week: Witnessing the Crisis: The Political and Ethical Challenges of Migration Regime Activist Research at the Polish-Belarusian Border by Justyna Straczuk From the new issue's themed section Emergency Response Research and Documentation. doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Free to access for one week: The Language of the Witness, the Language of the Researcher: Verbal and Nonverbal Communication in “Emergency Research” by Katarzyna Jędraszczyk From the themed section on Emergency Response Research and Documentation doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Free to access for one week: Multiple Positionalities of a Researcher: The Case of Polish Researchers Interviewing Ukrainian War Refugees in Poland by Elżbieta Kwiecińska & Małgorzata Łukianow From the themed section on Emergency Response Research and Documentation. doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: War and Eurasia’s Ethnic Boundaries: Chinese Intellectuals on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine by Ed Pulford 👉 doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Free for one week! The next article in Emergency Response Research and Documentation in Comparative Perspective: Ukrainian Researchers in a War Documentation Project: Intertwined Experiences and Methodologies by Natalia Otrishchenko, Artem Kharchenko, Valentyna Shevchenko doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Free to access for one week: Introduction to the Special Section on "Emergency Response Research and Documentation in a Comparative Perspective" by Natalia Otrishchenko & Anna Wylegała 👉 doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

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...

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