Division 13: Politics of Communist and Former Communist Countries

Roman Hlatky University of North Texas

Grigore Pop-Eleches Princeton University

Masha Hedberg Colgate University

Vulnerability to Populism in the Proximity of War: Eastern Europe Compared - Andreea Voina, Babes-Bolyai University; Mihnea Simion Stoica, Babeș-Bolyai University; Michał Rauszer, University of Warsaw; Ioan Hosu, Babes-Bolyai University

Resisting an Occupying Regime: The Case of Ukraine’s ‘Yellow Ribbon’ Movement - Emma Mateo, New York University

Deciphering Russian Propaganda in Central Asia amidst the Russia-Ukraine War - Dilshod Achilov, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth; Ugur Kursuncu, University of South Carolina

Labor Mobilization and Elections in an Autocracy: Findings from Belarus - Olena Nikolayenko, Fordham University