Introduction to the Special Issue on Eurasian Continuities: Historical Legacies in the Post-Communist World—Ideologies, Practices, or Social Constructions?

This article serves as an introduction to the special issue devoted to historical continuities in Eurasia and different conceptualizations of the communist legacies. It highlights the main research challenges the special issue deals with and how they fit into a more general discussion about the application of the concept of “post-communism” as an analytical category. It further reviews the composition of the special issue and sums up the main scholarly insights it produced.