Vladimir Tismaneanu is the Chairman of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania,  professor of politics at the University of Maryland (College Park), director of the University's Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies, and chair of the Editorial Committee for the journal East European Politics and Societies. Dr. Tismaneanu is author of numerous books including Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel (1992, expanded paper 1993); Fantasies of Salvation: Nationalism, Democracy, and Myth in Post-Communist Europe (1998), and the award-winning Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism (2003). He is  currently writing two books: The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and the Lessons of the 20th Century; and Two Sisters: Communism, Anti-Fascism, and Jewish Identities. His articles have come out in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, West European Politics, Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland), Cotidianul (Romania), Partisan Review, Wilson Quarterly, Orbis, etc.