Problems of Post-Communism is a bimonthly peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

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 covering economic

Economy

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, political

Politics

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, security, and international development

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s in post-communist countries. Until 1992 it was known as Problems of Communism and predicted the collapse of the USSR

Predictions of Soviet collapse

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.. It was originally published by the United States Information Agency

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 and is now published by M.E. Sharpe. The editor-in-chief is Dmitry P. Gorenburg (Harvard University

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).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents

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/Social and Behavioral Sciences, ProQuest

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, Scopus

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, Social Sciences Citation Index

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, Sociological Abstracts, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, it has a 2009 impact factor

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of 0.368, ranking it 88th out of 112 journals in the category "Political Science".

External links

• Journal page at publisher's website