Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

eScholarship stats: History by Item for April through July, 2026

Item	Title	Total requests	2026-07	2026-06	2026-05	2026-04
0333q36j	Heroes, Cowards, & Traitors: The Crimean War & its Challenge to Russian Autocracy.	5,906	1,548	1,623	1,684	1,051
4wr2g4kf	Communism on Trial: The Slansky Affair and Anti-Semitism in Post-WWII Europe	812	87	266	283	176
25b624gd	The Poet of Fire: Aleksandr Skriabin’s Synaesthetic Symphony “Prometheus” and the Russian Symbolist Poetics of Light	465	28	212	143	82
64d7v9hj	Georgia's Pankisi Gorge: An Ethnographic Survey	433	36	131	129	137
2p3674pw	The Many Ends of Old Odessa: Memories of the Gilded Age in Russia’s City of Sin	391	8	109	138	136
0cb7p3j6	Russia's Soft Underbelly: The Stability of Instability in Dagestan	339	21	59	131	128
03q8t431	15 Years after the “Collapse” of Soviet Socialism: The Role of Elite Choices, Class Conflict, and a Critique of Modernization Theory	333	19	56	141	117
410258c8	Civic Forum, Public against Violence, and the Struggle for Slovakia	321	26	110	103	82
45t9r2f1	Prisoners of the Caucasus: Literary Myths and Media Representations of the Chechen Conflict	312	33	76	107	96
1mg8f31q	Reexamining the "Serbian Exceptionalism" Thesis	295	10	79	112	94
0c2794v4	From Ter-Petrosian to Kocharian: Leadership Change in Armenia	291	21	47	100	123
0fs1526m	China, the Fun House Mirror: Soviet Reactions to the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969	288	26	70	92	100
05p270xf	The Geopolitics of Oil, Gas, and Ecology in the Caucasus and Caspian Sea Basin. 1998 Caucasus Conference Report.	278	28	68	86	96
81z5217g	Language "Purity" and the De-Russification of Tatar	278	24	77	73	104
9cm4d9vn	Mother Tongue: Linguistic Nationalism and the Cult of Translation in Postcommunist Armenia	278	18	76	82	102
87w1v9rd	The Nineteenth-Century Russian Gypsy Choir and the Performance of Otherness	261	40	77	62	82
7149d486	Islam and Islamic Practices in Georgia	260	27	67	76	90
0mg0q54r	“The Language of the Sword”: Alexksandr Bek, The Writers Union and Baurdzhan Momysh-uly in Battle for the memory of Volokolamskoe shosse	241	24	70	79	68
8jw8f696	From Solidarity to Division: An Analysis of Lech Walesa's Transition to Constituted Leadership	228	16	38	87	87
3b18d2p8	Babushki as Surrogate Wives: How Single Mothers and Grandmothers Negotiate the Division of Labor in Russia	226	41	80	53	52
8ds7f6zm	The Nature of Mass Communist Beliefs in Postcommunist Russian Political Space	217	13	68	76	60
1ws054s5	Between “Europe” and “Africa”: Building the “New” Ukraine on the Shoulders of Migrant Women	214	17	60	68	69
0dn0s80v	The Transformation of Askar Akaev, President of Kyrgyzstan	208	22	36	86	64
8dz7v28n	The Greening of Grassroots Democracy? The Russian Environmental Movement, Foreign Aid, and Democratization	191	6	32	92	61
1b88b59g	Religiosity and Trust in Religious Institutions: Tales from the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia)	187	17	41	63	66
8qm1q7mt	Croatia's Moments of Truth: The Domestic Politics of State Cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia	187	5	38	61	83
77s5279c	Living in the Question? The Berlin Nuclear Crisis Critical Oral History	185	20	54	48	63
7ch968cn	Militant Islam in Central Asia: The Case of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan	185	19	32	72	62
4j19w9f4	Does Money Buy Happiness in Unhappy Russia?	183	21	47	40	75
7rq5g9rc	Soviet and Post-Soviet Area Studies	183	26	40	49	68
53q654p5	Reshaping Eurasia: Foreign Policy Strategies and Leadership Assets in Post-Soviet South Caucasus	173	12	24	83	54
2j57b1h5	Is the Personal Political? The Development of Armenia's NGO Sector During the Post-Soviet Period	168	11	33	68	56
4qr0m8wn	Causes and Visions of Conflict in Abkhazia	166	15	40	56	55
8jh8h3qp	Living in the Question? The Berlin Nuclear Crisis Critical Oral History, Part II	163	15	24	51	73
3pv4g8zf	Why We Hate You: The Passions of National Identity and Ethnic Violence	155	20	38	33	64
5r96h3sb	Weaving Shuttles and Ginseng Roots: Commodity Flows and Migration in a Borderland of the Russian Far East	148	17	33	69	29
27g2v7bz	The Role of Social Identity in Resistance to International Criminal Law: The Case of Serbia and the ICTY	126	15	31	41	39
5sh3m78p	Institutions, Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: International Experience and Its Implications for the Caucasus. 1997 Caucasus Conference Report.	123	11	16	47	49
4b75135h	Whither Democracy? The Politics of Dejection in the 2000 Romanian Elections	122	6	30	37	49
23m654p8	Civilizing the State Bureaucracy: The Unfulfilled Promise of Public Administration Reform in Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic (1990-2000)	105	6	20	29	50
4gr5w94x	Nationalist Mobilization and Imperial Collapse: Serbian and Russian Nationalism Compared, 1987-1991	98	5	10	51	32
1zh7z9h6	State Building and the Reconstruction of Shattered Societies. 1999 Caucasus Conference Report.	94	6	18	40	30
6dd333r5	Ethnic War, Holy War, War O' War: Does the Adjective Matter in Explaining Collective Political Violence?	92	6	24	35	27
28f214m7	One hundred years of Slavic Collecting at UC Berkeley Library	88	6	24	35	23
76x5b070	Inequality in Transition? Educational Stratification and German Unification	78	6	12	26	34
5pp7r1x3	The Other	77	2	9	31	35
4tz0p8pf	Fairytale Cynicism in the Kingdom of Plastic Bags: Mapping Power and Powerlessness in Chelnochovsk-na-Dniestre, Ukraine	66	4	6	28	28
0w59p7jf	The Soviet idea: an experiment?	44	3	15	18	8

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