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Parent: Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies
eScholarship stats: History by Item for December, 2024 through March, 2025
| Item | Title | Total requests | 2025-03 | 2025-02 | 2025-01 | 2024-12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0fs1526m | China, the Fun House Mirror: Soviet Reactions to the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969 | 185 | 36 | 39 | 28 | 82 |
| 0cb7p3j6 | Russia's Soft Underbelly: The Stability of Instability in Dagestan | 184 | 38 | 32 | 18 | 96 |
| 0c2794v4 | From Ter-Petrosian to Kocharian: Leadership Change in Armenia | 175 | 35 | 46 | 55 | 39 |
| 4wr2g4kf | Communism on Trial: The Slansky Affair and Anti-Semitism in Post-WWII Europe | 174 | 46 | 44 | 32 | 52 |
| 0333q36j | Heroes, Cowards, & Traitors: The Crimean War & its Challenge to Russian Autocracy. | 165 | 31 | 46 | 36 | 52 |
| 25b624gd | The Poet of Fire: Aleksandr Skriabin’s Synaesthetic Symphony “Prometheus” and the Russian Symbolist Poetics of Light | 120 | 33 | 23 | 40 | 24 |
| 410258c8 | Civic Forum, Public against Violence, and the Struggle for Slovakia | 118 | 34 | 26 | 23 | 35 |
| 45t9r2f1 | Prisoners of the Caucasus: Literary Myths and Media Representations of the Chechen Conflict | 107 | 18 | 40 | 21 | 28 |
| 0mg0q54r | “The Language of the Sword”: Alexksandr Bek, The Writers Union and Baurdzhan Momysh-uly in Battle for the memory of Volokolamskoe shosse | 104 | 31 | 31 | 22 | 20 |
| 7ch968cn | Militant Islam in Central Asia: The Case of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan | 102 | 23 | 31 | 21 | 27 |
| 3pv4g8zf | Why We Hate You: The Passions of National Identity and Ethnic Violence | 97 | 30 | 28 | 20 | 19 |
| 64d7v9hj | Georgia's Pankisi Gorge: An Ethnographic Survey | 95 | 25 | 29 | 20 | 21 |
| 4j19w9f4 | Does Money Buy Happiness in Unhappy Russia? | 88 | 29 | 27 | 28 | 4 |
| 4qr0m8wn | Causes and Visions of Conflict in Abkhazia | 83 | 25 | 22 | 17 | 19 |
| 81z5217g | Language "Purity" and the De-Russification of Tatar | 76 | 16 | 18 | 23 | 19 |
| 7149d486 | Islam and Islamic Practices in Georgia | 73 | 17 | 24 | 12 | 20 |
| 1b88b59g | Religiosity and Trust in Religious Institutions: Tales from the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) | 70 | 20 | 19 | 11 | 20 |
| 8jw8f696 | From Solidarity to Division: An Analysis of Lech Walesa's Transition to Constituted Leadership | 65 | 20 | 21 | 16 | 8 |
| 9cm4d9vn | Mother Tongue: Linguistic Nationalism and the Cult of Translation in Postcommunist Armenia | 63 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 21 |
| 7rq5g9rc | Soviet and Post-Soviet Area Studies | 56 | 12 | 19 | 18 | 7 |
| 1mg8f31q | Reexamining the "Serbian Exceptionalism" Thesis | 47 | 10 | 16 | 11 | 10 |
| 0dn0s80v | The Transformation of Askar Akaev, President of Kyrgyzstan | 46 | 11 | 13 | 17 | 5 |
| 3b18d2p8 | Babushki as Surrogate Wives: How Single Mothers and Grandmothers Negotiate the Division of Labor in Russia | 46 | 16 | 14 | 13 | 3 |
| 03q8t431 | 15 Years after the “Collapse” of Soviet Socialism: The Role of Elite Choices, Class Conflict, and a Critique of Modernization Theory | 41 | 12 | 17 | 8 | 4 |
| 87w1v9rd | The Nineteenth-Century Russian Gypsy Choir and the Performance of Otherness | 40 | 14 | 17 | 5 | 4 |
| 2p3674pw | The Many Ends of Old Odessa: Memories of the Gilded Age in Russia’s City of Sin | 38 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 9 |
| 5r96h3sb | Weaving Shuttles and Ginseng Roots: Commodity Flows and Migration in a Borderland of the Russian Far East | 37 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 6 |
| 1ws054s5 | Between “Europe” and “Africa”: Building the “New” Ukraine on the Shoulders of Migrant Women | 35 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 9 |
| 8qm1q7mt | Croatia's Moments of Truth: The Domestic Politics of State Cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia | 34 | 5 | 13 | 9 | 7 |
| 53q654p5 | Reshaping Eurasia: Foreign Policy Strategies and Leadership Assets in Post-Soviet South Caucasus | 33 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 13 |
| 5sh3m78p | Institutions, Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: International Experience and Its Implications for the Caucasus. 1997 Caucasus Conference Report. | 27 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 5 |
| 05p270xf | The Geopolitics of Oil, Gas, and Ecology in the Caucasus and Caspian Sea Basin. 1998 Caucasus Conference Report. | 26 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 5 |
| 76x5b070 | Inequality in Transition? Educational Stratification and German Unification | 26 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 |
| 23m654p8 | Civilizing the State Bureaucracy: The Unfulfilled Promise of Public Administration Reform in Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic (1990-2000) | 25 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 3 |
| 2j57b1h5 | Is the Personal Political? The Development of Armenia's NGO Sector During the Post-Soviet Period | 24 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 8dz7v28n | The Greening of Grassroots Democracy? The Russian Environmental Movement, Foreign Aid, and Democratization | 23 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 4 |
| 4gr5w94x | Nationalist Mobilization and Imperial Collapse: Serbian and Russian Nationalism Compared, 1987-1991 | 22 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 5 |
| 27g2v7bz | The Role of Social Identity in Resistance to International Criminal Law: The Case of Serbia and the ICTY | 18 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 5 |
| 1zh7z9h6 | State Building and the Reconstruction of Shattered Societies. 1999 Caucasus Conference Report. | 17 | 7 | 7 | 3 | |
| 6dd333r5 | Ethnic War, Holy War, War O' War: Does the Adjective Matter in Explaining Collective Political Violence? | 16 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 1 |
| 8ds7f6zm | The Nature of Mass Communist Beliefs in Postcommunist Russian Political Space | 15 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 3 |
| 4b75135h | Whither Democracy? The Politics of Dejection in the 2000 Romanian Elections | 14 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 5pp7r1x3 | The Other | 11 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| 4tz0p8pf | Fairytale Cynicism in the Kingdom of Plastic Bags: Mapping Power and Powerlessness in Chelnochovsk-na-Dniestre, Ukraine | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
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