《共產主義與后共產主義研究》是一本涵蓋所有共產主義和后共產主義國家和共產主義運動的國際期刊，包括它們的國內政策和國際關系。它著重分析共產主義和后共產主義世界的歷史和當前發展，包括意識形態、經濟和社會。它還旨在通過邀請不同國家(例如波蘭或羅馬尼亞的教育)專門研究同一主題的學者發表具有比較性質的評論，對某一特定主題(例如中國的教育)提供比較焦點。除了歷史、政治學、經濟學和國際關系等傳統學科外，編輯們還鼓勵提交社會科學和人文學科較不發達領域的文章，如文化人類學、教育、地理、宗教和社會學。

Communist and Post-Communist Studies is an international journal covering all communist and post-communist states and communist movements, including both their domestic policies and their international relations. It is focused on the analysis of historical as well as current developments in the communist and post-communist world, including ideology, economy and society. It also aims to provide comparative foci on a given subject (e.g. education in China) by inviting comments of a comparative character from scholars specializing in the same subject matter but in different countries (e.g. education in Poland or Romania).In addition to the traditional disciplines of history, political science, economics and international relations, the editors encourage the submission of articles in less developed fields of social sciences and humanities, such as cultural anthropology, education, geography, religion and sociology.