| The myth of a no-NATO-enlargement pledge to Russia M Kramer The Washington Quarterly 32 (2), 39-61, 2009 | 237 | 2009 |
| Ideology and the cold war M Kramer Review of International Studies 25 (4), 539-576, 1999 | 211 | 1999 |
| The perils of counterinsurgency: Russia's war in Chechnya M Kramer International Security 29 (3), 5-63, 2004 | 210 | 2004 |
| Guerrilla warfare, counterinsurgency and terrorism in the North Caucasus: the military dimension of the Russian–Chechen conflict M Kramer Europe-Asia Studies 57 (2), 209-290, 2005 | 174 | 2005 |
| The Soviet Union and the 1956 Crises in Hungary and Poland: Reassessments and New Findings M Kramer Journal of Contemporary History 33 (2), 163-214, 1998 | 144 | 1998 |
| The collapse of East European communism and the repercussions within the Soviet Union (Part 1) M Kramer Journal of Cold War Studies 5 (4), 178-256, 2003 | 124 | 2003 |
| Russian Policy Toward the Commonwealth of Independent States: Recent Trends and Future Prospects M Kramer Problems of Post-Communism 55 (6), 3-19, 2008 | 114 | 2008 |
| The Early Post-Stalin Succession Struggle and Upheavals in East-Central Europe: Internal-External Linkages in Soviet Policy Making (Part 3) M Kramer Journal of Cold War Studies 1 (3), 3-66, 1999 | 109 | 1999 |
| NATO, the Baltic states and Russia: a framework for sustainable enlargement M Kramer International Affairs 78 (4), 731-756, 2002 | 103 | 2002 |
| The demise of the Soviet bloc M Kramer Reflections on 1989 in Eastern Europe, 7-62, 2013 | 83 | 2013 |
| Three farms: making milk, meat, and money from the American soil M Kramer (No Title), 1980 | 82 | 1980 |
| Polish workers and the post-communist transition, 1989-1993 M Kramer Communist and Post-Communist Studies 28 (1), 71-114, 1995 | 81 | 1995 |
| The collapse of East European communism and the repercussions within the Soviet Union (Part 2) M Kramer Journal of Cold War Studies 6 (4), 3-64, 2004 | 75 | 2004 |
| The Czechoslovak crisis and the Brezhnev doctrine M Kramer 1968: The World Transformed, 111-72, 1968 | 75 | 1968 |
| Why did Russia give away Crimea sixty years ago? M Kramer Wilson Center 19, 2014 | 74 | 2014 |
| The Black Book of Communism N Werth, JL Panne, A Paczkowski, K Bartosek, JL Margolin Harvard University Press, Cumbreland, Rhode Island, USA, 1999 | 68 | 1999 |
| The collapse of East European communism and the repercussions within the Soviet Union (Part 3) M Kramer Journal of Cold War Studies 7 (1), 3-96, 2005 | 67 | 2005 |
| The Role of the CPSU International Department in Soviet Foreign Relations and National Security Policy M Kramer Soviet Studies 42 (3), 429-446, 1990 | 64 | 1990 |
| Social Protection Policies and Safety Nets in East-Central Europe: Dilemmas of the Postcommunist Transformation M Kramer Sustaining the transition: The social safety net in postcommunist Europe, 46-123, 1997 | 63 | 1997 |
| Characterizing spouse/partner depression and alcohol problems over the course of military deployment. CR Erbes, M Kramer, PA Arbisi, D DeGarmo, MA Polusny Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 85 (4), 297, 2017 | 57 | 2017 |