President of the Scientific Council
Vladimir Tismăneanu
Director, Center for the Study of Post-communist Societies, University of Maryland (College Park), SUA. The President of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (PCACDR, 2006-2007) and of the Consultative Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (2007-2010). Selective list of publications: Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism (University of California Press, 2003; Polirom, 2005); Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism and Myth in Post-Communist Europe (Princeton University Press, 1999; Polirom 1999); Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel (Free Press, 1992; Polirom, 2007). Co-editor (with Dorin Dobrincu and Cristian Vasile) of the Final Report of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (Humanitas, 2007). He has recently edited Stalinism Revisited. The Establishment of Communist Regimes in East Central Europe (CEU Press, 2009).