Communist and Post-Communist Studies

The September issue is out! Featuring a long-awaited special section on Methodological Challenges and New Approaches to Data Collection and Analysis in the Context of War, Conflict, and Authoritarianism, guest edited by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova and Maxim Alyukov. online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/issue/5...

Recently Published: Putting Paranoia into Practice: Information Security for Ethnographers in Authoritarian Contexts by Talia Kollek Free access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently Published: Researching Russia with Digital Trace Data Available by Alexey Bessudnov Free access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently Published: How (Not) to Hide Your Data: Availability of Quantitative Datasets from Russia and Implications for Russian Studies by Alexander Libman & Gareth Whitmore Free access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently Published: Social Media Listening Platforms in Wartime Russia: Limits and Opportunities by Olga Logunova & Pavel Lebedev Free access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently Published: Text-as-Data Methods to Study Mass-Media Manipulations in Autocracies by Lanabi La Lova Free access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently Published (🔆Open Access🔆): From Restricted to Digital Fieldwork: A Renewed Methodological Framework for Russian Studies After the Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine by Kevin Limonier & Maxime Audinet doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently published: Introduction to the Special Issue on Methodological Challenges and New Approaches to Data Collection and Analysis in the Context of War, Conflict, and Authoritarianism by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova and Maxim Alyukov doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: Worries About Workers: Neoliberal Morality, Russian Sociology, and the Quest to Raise Labor Productivity, 1960–2000 by Alexa von Winning doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently published: Knowledge Production and Resistance in Times of War: The Case of Russian Liberal Scholars by Elena Pavlova Free access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently published: Sino-Russian Relations from the Perspective of National Role Theory: Mutual Role Expectations and Symbolic Contestation in Media Discourses by Elizaveta Priupolina Free access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles (🔆Open Access🔆): The “Battle over Street Trade”: Bottom-Up Market Practices and the Contested Spirit of Capitalism in Post-Socialist Poland by Florian Peters doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently published: Distributional Consequences of Political Freedom: Inequality in Transition Countries by Monika Wesołowska, Sławomir Kuźmar, Bartosz Totleben & Dawid Piątek Free access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: Informality, Business Environment, and Legal Reform in Weak Rule-of-Law Context: Case Study of Institutionalized Informal Business Networks in Uzbekistan by Tolibjon Mustafoev doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently published: Creating Good Young Patriots: Russian Youth Leaders on Telegram and the War against Ukraine by Ian Garner & Allyson Edwards Free access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles (🔆Open Access🔆): Patriotic Education in China: Serving the Party Under the Socialist Rule of Law by Martin Lavička & Marina Svensson doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently published: Through Their Eyes: Agency and Resilience in Children’s Photography of the Russia-Ukraine War by Iuliia Hoban Free access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: How (Not) to Hide Your Data: Availability of Quantitative Datasets from Russia and Implications for Russian Studies by Alexander Libman & Gareth Whitmore doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently published: Media Literacy and the Interpretation of the War—A Study of Uzbekistani Youth’s Perceptions on the Russia-Ukraine War Free by Mukhammadsodik Donaev Free access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: From Object of Trauma to Subject of History: Women Shuttle Traders Telling Their Own Stories of the Wild 1990s in Russia. by Claudia Eggart doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently published: Language Activism in Kazakhstan: Decolonial Sentiments and (Post-) Soviet Reality by Kamila Smagulova & Joanna Bagadzinska Free access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New publication in @cpcs.bsky.social. In it, I ask: Who gets to define the legacy of the Russian 1990s? Former shuttle traders challenge official trauma narratives, emphasizing agency, material gains, and the moral complexities of capitalism. OA for 2 more weeks here: shorturl.at/PSGXp

JUST PUBLISHED: 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 & Caress Schenk 🚨Free to access for one week!🚨 doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Introduction to the Special Section on Youth and Russia’s War Against Ukraine: Youth, Selfhood, and the Generative Force of Russia’s War Against Ukraine by Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social and Allyson Edwards @allysonedwards1.bsky.social Free to access for one week! doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

The June issue is out! Featuring a special section on Youth and Russia's War Against Ukraine (guest eds Ian Garner & Allyson Edwards), articles on inequality in transition, Sino-Russian relations, plus a research note on Russian scholars in times of war. online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/issue/5...

New in Advance Articles: Determinants of Voting Behavior in the 2023 Polish Parliamentary Election by Wojciech Gagatek & Michał Kotnarowski doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: Nothing Was Available and Everything Was Possible: The Moral Economy of Small-Scale Enterprise Between Late Socialism and Capitalism Available to Purchase by Veronika Pehe & Petr Kupka doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

CPCS is at CAS 2026 @canslavpapers.bsky.social! Come talk to Editor-in-chief Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social or Managing Editor Anna Kozlova about submitting your manuscript.

Recently published: From Celebrity Feminism to Feminist Anti-War Resistance by Saara Maria Ratilainen, Daniil Zhaivoronok & Galina Miazhevich Free access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: Linking Domestic and Foreign Foes: Legitimation, Social Revolution, and Anti-Americanism During the Korean War by Yinan He doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently published: The Birth of Collective Action Out of Influencer Culture?: Individual Visibility and Power Dynamics in the Feminist Anti-War Resistance by Daniil Zhaivoronok Free access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: Language Activism in Kazakhstan: Decolonial Sentiments and (Post-) Soviet Reality by Kamila Smagulova & Joanna Bagadzinska doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently published: Micromobilizing Emotion: How Feminist Anti-War Resistance Builds Affective Infrastructure in Exile by Karolina Nugumanova Free access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: Colorless Revolution. Elite Rotations in Post-Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstan by Denis Ri & Kirill Petrov doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently published: 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 Free access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: We Are All Netnographers Now? Fieldwork in an Age of Participatory Warfare by Jethro Norman doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Attending #BASEES2026 this weekend? CPCS editor Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social will be happy to answer your questions about submitting your article, the review process, and publishing with us. See you in Birmingham! @basees.bsky.social

Recently published: The Defending “Defenders”: Framing Public Actions in Contemporary Russian Political Opportunity Structures by Marina Bezenkova Free access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles (🔆Open Access🔆): The Image of the Communist Ideo-Political Legacy: Presented in the Party Materials of Selected Contemporary European Communist Parties by P. Obacz, A. Prusak, B. Pychowski, W. Samek & K. Sowa doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently published: Transformations in Russian Activism: Navigating Identity and Solidarity in Russia’s Anti-War Movement by Vlada Baranova Free access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

If only someone studied these kinds of questions...

New in Advance Articles: Researching Russia with Digital Trace Data by Alexey Bessudnov doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently published: 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...

New in Advance Articles: Social Media Listening Platforms in Wartime Russia: Limits and Opportunities by Olga Logunova & Pavel Lebedev doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Recently published: The Evolution of Women’s Activism in Russia: Evidence of a Declining Gender Protest Gap by: Regina Smyth, Ivan Grigoriev & Anna A. Dekalchuk Free access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...