The article proposes a new machine learning model for assessing media freedom. It postulates that when media are free, and journalists can safely criticize influential politicians, the relative politi...

This article analyzes the epistemological and ethical challenges and difficulties of conducting research on the humanitarian crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border from the dual perspectives of the re...

When research is conducted involving the collection of testimonies from a wartime, emergency, or crisis situation, the language used by the witness and the researcher is particularly important. The re...

In the midst of an ongoing war, oral history interviewers bear a particular responsibility toward vulnerable groups they are working with. As Polish scholars, we were an outside privileged group unaff...

This article covers the experiences of an interdisciplinary team of researchers, most of whom were internally displaced scholars, in one of the projects documenting the Russian war in Ukraine. It refl...

Global Collaboration Research Award | Communist and Post-Communist Studies | University of California Press Global Collaborative Research Award   Description   Communist and Post-Communist Studies (CPCS) and the University of California Press value the diversification and platforming of voices and perspectives of scholars from all regions who contribute to, and engage with, international research on the communist and post-communist world. In furthering this goal,...

This article argues that conflicts can be frozen through engagement in mutual trilateral identification games that marginalize lower-level political entities while elevating their danger through ident...

This study examines how media literacy influences the perceptions of young people in Uzbekistan regarding the Russia-Ukraine war. With the media’s pervasive role in shaping public understanding of glo...

In recent years, a body of critical scholarship has emerged that interrogates the impact of influencer culture on feminist activism. This study contributes to the ongoing scholarly debate by examining...

Request PDF | It’s a Matter of Time | Late-socialist blocks of flats (LSBFs) represent a significant part of the urban, architectural, and social legacies of post-communist Central and... | Find, read...

This article explores how text-as-data methodologies can be used to reveal patterns of mass-media manipulation strategies employed in modern autocracies. First, it explains the importance of studying ...

This document contains 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. Please note that all...

This document contains 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. Please note that all...

“Self-Governing Factory” analyzes the Polish Solidarity revolution of 1980–81 and the resulting economic reforms from the micro-historical perspective of a single enterprise—the Small-Engine Car Facto...

Presentation at XI ICCEES World Congress

Today scholars have often expressed skepticism about the existence of any significant anti-war resistance within Russia, as well as about the feasibility and necessity of studying Russian society. By ...