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Members of the Wisconsin Russia Project have produced cutting-edge social science research on Russia.

These articles below were prepared with funding support from the Wisconsin Russia Project, sponsored by Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Vice Chancellor for Graduate Research and Education of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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2025

Gerber, Theodore P. and Michael Zaslavsky. 2025. Inequality and Stratification in the Transition from Socialism. In Markus Gangl, Lucinda Platt, Javier G. Polavieja, and Herman G. van de Werfhorst (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Social Stratification. Oxford University Press. In press.

Gimpelson, V. and R. Kapeliushnikov. 2025. Upgrading, Downgrading or Polarization? The Case of Russia, 2000-2019. Global Trends in Job Polarisation and Upgrading A Comparison of Developed and Developing Economies. Sergio Torrejon Perez, Enrique Fernandez-Macias, and John Hurley, Editors. Palgrave – Macmillan.

Sokolov, Mikhai. 2025. Rossijskie economisty: Sociodemographicheskij portret akademicheskoj professii [Russian Economists: A Socio-Demographic Profile of an Academic Profession]. Zhurnal Novoj Ekonomickeskoj Assotsiatsii, [The Journal of the New Economic Association], #3: 158-186.

Sokolov, Mikhail. 2025. Rossijskie istoriki: Struktura professional’nogo soobschestva [Russian Historians. The Structure of the Professional Community]. Novaja I novejshaja istorija, [Modern and Contemporary History], 68(2): 196-214.

Sokolov, Mikhail & Alexander Libman. 2025. Is Homo Economicus Performative? Evidence from a Beauty Contest Experiment with Mainstream and Non-Mainstream Academic Economists. Kyklos. The International Review of Social Sciences. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/kykl.70015.

Sokolov, Mikhail & Alexander Libman. 2025. Can Western Economics Survive in an Anti-Western Political Regime? Intellectual Universalism and the Internationalization of Economic Science in Russia. European Review of History. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13507486.2025.2526055.

Troitskiy, Mikhail. 2026. Fading Signals: How Fastened Identities Undermined Strategic Stability in the Post-Cold War Era. Negotiating Identity Conflicts in a Fragmenting World Order. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.

Troitskiy, Mikhail. 2025. Managing Multiple Audiences: Dual-Track Signals and the Silencing of Russia’s Globalized Elites before the Invasion of Ukraine. Post-Soviet Affairs, https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2025.2572503.

Troitskiy, Mikhail. 2025. Resilient Autocrats: Negotiation vs. Repression in War and Rebellion in Post-Soviet Eurasia. Negotiation Journal, forthcoming.

Troitskiy, Mikhail, Robert Orttung, Debra Javeline, Graeme Robertson, et al. 2025. The Climate Consequences of the U.S.-Russia Global realignment. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 81(5): 382-385. DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/00963402.2025.2542699.

Troitskiy, Mikhail. 2025. Offsetting Audience Costs: Intra-Regime Bargaining during Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine. Problems of Post-Communism. Online First, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2025.2467057.

Troitskiy, Mikhail. 2025. Russian Perspectives on Chinese Negotiating Behavior.  China’s Negotiating Mindset and Strategies: Historical and Cultural Foundations. London: Routledge, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003582113-24/russian-perspectives-chinese-negotiating-behavior-mikhail-troitskiy.

Zaslavsky, Michael, Theodore P. Gerber, and Sunnee Billingsley. 2026. Macro- Economic Conditions and Regional Variation in the Russian Total Fertility Rollercoaster, 1992– 2019. Low Fertility in the Past and Present: Comparative Studies in Compositional Demography. Oxford University Press. In press.

2024

Gerber Theodore P. and Gimpelson, Vladimir. 2024. Inequality and Social Stratification in Russia During the Putin Regime: From Market Transition to War on Ukraine. Sociology Compass. 18(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13196.

Javeline, Debra, Robert Orttung, Graeme Robertson, Mikhail Troitskiy et al. 2024. Russia in a Changing Climate. WIREs Climate Change, 15(2): 1-19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.872.

Iliyasov, Marat and Herrera, Yoshiko. 2024. Russia’s War Strategy: What Chechnya Suggests for Ukraine. Post-Soviet Affairs, 40(5), 383–400.

Shirikov, Anton, Dmitrii Kofanov and Yoshiko Herrera. 2024. Is Post-Communism Over? What Is and Is Not Distinctive About Eastern Europe and Eurasia Three Decades After Communism. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 71(6), 493–507.

2023

Chernina, Eugenia, and Vladimir Gimpelson. 2023. Do Wages Grow with Experience? Deciphering the Russian puzzle. Journal of Comparative Economics 51.2: 545-563.

Gerber, Theodore P. , Jane R. Zavisca, and Jia Wang (2023). Market and Nonmarket Pathways to Home Ownership and Social Stratification in Hybrid Housing Regimes: Evidence from Four Post-Soviet Countries. University of Chicago Press Journals. https://doi.org/10.1086/722927

Herrera. Yoshiko. 2023. Teaching the Russian War on Ukraine. Journal of Political Science Education, 20:3, pp. 347–359.

Kondakov, Alexander. The Kremlin’s Favorite Scapegoat: The Latest Attack on LGBTQ+ Rights in Russia. The Russia File, https://therussiafile.libsyn.com/the-kremlins-favorite-scapegoat-the-latest-attack-on-lgbtq-rights-in-russia.

Kondakov, Alexander Sasha (2022). Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia. London: UCL Press. Open access download: uclpress.co.uk/products/192307. US hard copy: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/V/bo196817308.html.

Kontareva, A., & Kenney, M. 2023. National Markets in a World of Global Platform Giants: The Persistence of Russian Domestic Competitors. Policy & Internet, 15(3), 327–350.

Verkeev A., Serebrennikov D. 2023. Victims of Their Own Fear: Perceived Safety and Crime Victim Experience in Russia. Russian Sociological Review 22(2), 179–206. In Russian [Zhertvy svoego strakha: subyektivnaya bezopasnost’ i opyt viktimizatsii v Rossii]

Wang, Jia and Gerber, Theodore P. 2023. The Variable Disadvantage of Nonstandard Employment for Entering Homeownership in Russia and Urban China: The Potential Role of Mortgage Prevalence. Social Forces. 101(4), 1712–1743. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soac135.

Zavadskaya, Margarita & Theodore Gerber (2023). Rise and Fall: Social Science in Russia Before and After the War. Post-Soviet Affairs. DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.2022.2164450

2022

Alexeev, M., & Zakharov, N. (2022). Who profits from windfalls in oil tax revenue? Inequality, protests, and the role of corruption. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 197, 472-492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.03.010

Brunarska, Z., & Toruńczyk-Ruiz, S. (2022). With Time We Learn to Trust Others? Long-Standing Ethnic Diversity, Recent Immigration, and Out-Group Trust in Russia. International Migration Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183221127296

Brunarska, Z., & Soral, W. (2022). Does Origin Matter? Ethnic Group Position and Attitudes Toward Immigrants: The Case of Russia. Nationalities Papers, 1-18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2021.71

Earle, John S. and Shpak, Solomiya and Shirikov, Anton and Gehlbach, Scott, The Oligarch Vanishes: Defensive Ownership, Property Rights, and Political Connections (September 28, 2021). Forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3683924 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3683924

Enikolopov, R., Rochlitz, M., Schoors, K. J., & Zakharov, N. (2022). The Effect of Independent Online Media in an Autocracy. Available at SSRN 4131355. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4131355

Eras, Laura (2022). War, Identity Politics, and Attitudes toward a Linguistic Minority: Prejudice against Russian-Speaking Ukrainians in Ukraine between 1995 and 2018. Nationalities Papers, 1-22. doi:10.1017/nps.2021.100

Hendley, Kathryn (2022). Legal Dualism as a Framework for Analyzing the Role of Law under Authoritarianism, Annual Review of Law and Social Science, vol. 18, pp. 211-24, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-050420-104012

Kofanov, D., Kozlov, V., Libman, A., & Zakharov, N. (2022). Encouraged to Cheat? Federal Incentives and Career Concerns at the Sub-national Level as Determinants of Under-Reporting of COVID-19 Mortality in Russia. British Journal of Political Science, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123422000527

Savelyeva, Natalia (2022). Something to believe in: signifiers, symbols and Russia’s national ideology https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/something-to-believe-in-signifiers-symbols-and-russias-national-ideology/

2021

Ananyev, M. and Poyker, M. (2021). Do dictators signal strength with electoral fraud? European Journal of Political Economy, 102075. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102075

Chapman, Hannah (2021). Shoring Up Autocracy: Participatory Technologies and Regime Support in Putin’s Russia. Comparative Political Studies 54 (8): 1459–1489.  DOI: 10.1177/0010414021989759

Hendley, Kathryn (2021). Do Lawyers Matter in Russia? Wisconsin Law Review, vol. 2021, no. 2, pp. 301-35, 2021.

Hendley, Kathryn (2021). Rethinking the Role of Personal Connections in the Russian Labor Market: Getting a Job as a Law Graduate in Russia. Post-Soviet Affairs, 37:3, pp. 242-60, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2021.1874768

Kondakov, Alexander S. and Shtorn, Evgeny (2021). Sex, Alcohol, and Soul: Violent Reactions to Coming Out after the “Gay Propaganda” Law in Russia. The Russian Review, 80: 37-55. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/russ.12297

Korovkin, V and Makarin, A. (2021). Production Networks and War. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=16759

Poliakov S. and Maiboroda A. (2021). Understanding the Gender Dimensions of Youth Cultural Scenes: A Youth Ethnography. In: Omelchenko E. (eds) Youth in Putin’s Russia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82954-4_3

Shcherbak A. and Ukhvatova M. (2021). The Symphony is Over? The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Russian Orthodox Church–State Relations. Problems of Post-Communism. DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2021.1994424

Trifonov, Dmitri (2021). Political connections of Russian corporations: Blessing or curse? Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Volume 29, March 2021, 100458. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbef.2021.100458

2020

Agasisti, T., Egorov, A., & Maximova, M. (2020). Do merger policies increase university efficiency? Evidence from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. Higher School of Economics, Research Paper No. WP BRP 226/EC/2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3560077

Blume, L.,  Durlauf, S., & Lukina, A. (2020). Poverty traps in Markov models of the evolution of wealth. Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change SP II 2020-303, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

Charron, A. (2020). ‘Somehow, we cannot accept it’: Drivers of internal displacement from Crimea and the forced/voluntary migration binary. Europe-Asia Studies, 72(3), pp. 432-454. DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2019.1685649

Dean, Laura A. 2020. Diffusing Human Trafficking Policy in Eurasia. Bristol: Policy Press, University of Bristol

Hendley, Kathryn (2020). Continuity or Change? The Role of Gender in Career Preferences for Young Russian Lawyers. Wisconsin International Law Journal, 37:2, pp. 249-84, 2020. https://repository.law.wisc.edu/s/uwlaw/item/32624

Hendley, Kathryn (2020. Assessing the Potential for Renegades Among Russian Millennial Lawyers. Demokratizatsiya, 28:1, pp. 143-75, 2020. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/747824/pdf

Herrera, Y., Shirikov, A., & Kofanov, D. (2020). Eurasia and postcommunism: Weasel words? in Weasel Words and the Analysis of “Postcommunist” Politics” A Symposium, East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, 34(2), pp. 283-325. https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325419900244

Kondakov, A. (2020). The queer epistemologies: Challenges to the modes of knowing about sexuality in Russia. In Z. Davy, A. C. Santos, C. Bertone, R. Thoreson, & S. E. Wieringa (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities: Two Volume Set (Vol. 1, pp. 82-98). London: Sage.

Sadigov, T. (2020). Invention commercialization among Russian scientists: Bridging the gap between ideational and material realms. Cross Cultural & Strategic Management. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1108/CCSM-12-2019-0224

Trifonov, D. (2020). Political connections of Russian corporations: Blessing or curse? Higher School of Economics Research, Paper No. WP BRP 230/EC/2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3587032

2019

Charron, A. (2019). Crimean tatars’ postcolonial condition and strategies of cultural Decolonization in mainland Ukraine. Euxeinos: Governance and Culture in the Black Sea Region, 9(28), pp. 26-46.

Coynash, H., & Charron, A. (2019). Russian-occupied Crimea and the state of exception: Repression, persecution, and human rights violations. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 60(1), pp. 28-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2019.1625279

Chapman, H. S., & Gerber, T. P. (2019). Opinion-formation and issue-framing effects of Russian news in Kyrgyzstan. International Studies Quarterly, 63(3), 756–769. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqz046

Dower, P. C., Finkel, E., Gehlbach, S., & Nafziger, S. (2019). Democratization as a continuous choice: A comment on Acemoglu and Robinson’s correction to ‘why did the west extend the franchise?’ Journal of Politics. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3207569

Dower, P. C., & Pyle, W. (2019). Land rights, rental markets and the post-socialist cityscape. Journal of Comparative Economics, 47(4), pp. 962-974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2019.08.003

Hendley, Kathryn, & Straka, Alexander (2019). Foreign Law Students in the U.S.: A Preliminary Assessment. Legal Studies Research Paper Series Paper No. 1488, University of Wisconsin Law School, 2019.  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3464630

Hendley, Kathryn (2019). Nature versus Nurture: A Comparison of Russian Law Graduates Destined for State Service and for Private Practice. Law & Policy, 41:2, pp. 147-73, 2019. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lapo.12122

Kondakov, A. (2019). The influence of the ‘gay-propaganda’ law on violence against LGBTIQ people in Russia: Evidence from criminal court rulings. European Journal of Criminology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370819887511

Kosyakova, Y., & Gerber, T. P. (2019). Adult education, stratification, and regime change: Upgrading and sidestepping in Russia, 1965–2005. American Sociological Association, 92(2). 124-149. DOI: 10.1177/0038040718823192

Prasolov, A. V., Lukina, A. A., & Dukhno, E. P. (2019). On the dynamics of different qualification labor in macroeconomic aspect. In T.V. Alexandrovich (Ed.), International Scientific and Practical Conference Contemporary Issues of Economic Development of Russia: Challenges and Opportunities (pp. 743-752). Future Academy.

Sidorkin, O., & Vorobyev, D. (2019). Extra votes to signal loyalty: Regional political cycles and national elections in Russia. Public Choice. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-019-00747-8

2018

Chapman, H. S., Marquardt, K. L., Herrera, Y. M., Gerber, T. P. (2018). Xenophobia on the rise? Temporal and regional trends in xenophobic attitudes in Russia. Comparative Politics, 50(3). https://doi.org/10.5129/001041518822704944

Chirninov A. (2018). Bremya dokazyvaniya v konstitutsionnom sudebnom protsesse Rossii i SShA [The burden of proof in Russian and American constitutional litigation]. Sravnitel’noe konstitutsionnoe obozrenie, 27(6), pp. 101-116. (In Russian). DOI: 10.21128/1812-7126-2018-6-101-116

Chirninov A. (2018). Netipichnye dokazatel’stva v konstitutsionnom sudebnom protsesse Rossii i SShA [Non-traditional evidence in Russian and American constitutional litigation]. Sravnitel’noe konstitutsionnoe obozrenie, 27(3), pp. 47-72. (In Russian). DOI: 10.21128/1812-7126-2018-3-47-72

Dower, P. C., Finkel, E., Gehlbach, S., & Nafziger, S. (2018). Collective action and representation in autocracies: Evidence from Russia’s great reforms. American Political Science Review, 112(1), 125-147. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055417000454. Michael Wallerstein Award for best article in political economy. European Politics and Society Best Article Award, honorable mention.

Dower, P. C., & Markevich, A. (2018) The Stolypin reform and agricultural productivity in late imperial Russia. European Review of Economic History, 23(3), pp. 241–267. https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/hey015

Dower, P. C., & Markevich, A. (2018). Labor misallocation and mass mobilization: Russian agriculture during the Great War. Review of Economics and Statistics, 100(2), 245-259. https://doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00726

Kondakov, A. (2018). Crip kinship: A political strategy of people who were deemed contagious by the shirtless Putin. Feminist Formations 30(1), 71-90.   doi:10.1353/ff.2018.0004

Kondakov, A. (2018). Mezhdunarodnye diskussii o gomoseksual’nosti: jeffekty bumeranga v potokah vlasti [International discussions of homosexuality: boomeranging effects in power currents]. Sociologiâ vlasti, 30(1), pp. 14-32.

Kondakov, A. (2018). Mezhdunarodnye diskussii o gomoseksual’nosti: jeffekty bumeranga v potokah vlasti [International discussions of homosexuality: boomeranging effects in power currents]. Sociologiâ vlasti, 30(1), pp. 14-32.

Kofanov, D., Shirikov, A., & Herrera Y. (2018). Sovereignty and regionalism in Eurasia. In. A. Paasi, J. Harrison, & M. Jones (Eds). Handbook on the Geographies of Regions and Territories, Edward Elgar Publishing (pp. 395-406). https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785365805.00044

Sidorkin, O., & Vorobyev, D. (2018). Political cycles and corruption in Russian regions. European Journal of Political Economy, 52, 55-74.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2017.05.001

Ukhvatova, M. (2018). Naputstviya okhraniteley.Religioznaya ritorika na inauguratsiyakh rossiyskikh gubernatorov. [Blessing of the guardians. Religious rhetoric at inauguration of governors in Russia]. Politiya. Analiz. Khronika. Prognoz, 89(2), pp. 89-101. (In Russian).  DOI: 10.30570/2078-5089-2018-89-2-84-101

2017

Finkel, E., Gehlbach, S., & Kofanov, D. (2017). (Good) land and freedom (for former serfs): Determinants of peasant unrest in European Russia, March–October 1917. Slavic Review, 76(3), pp. 710-721. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2017.179