The book includes excerpts from the essays of the participants in the entrance examination of the 2002 Summer School as well as lectures by the teachers of the Summer School. Lecturers: Vladimir Bukovski, Stéphane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Petruška Šuštrova, Alexandru Zub, Anatol Petrencu, Marius Oprea, Mircea Carp, Ana Blandiana. The Summer School is a project of the Fundaţia Academia Civică in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, which aims to reappraise and create a culture of remembrance on communism. The editor of the volume is Romulus Rusan.