The Final Report is a pioneering work representing an official and irreversible departure from the totalitarian legacy of the communist regime. It is the result of the arduous effort of some of the best scholars in the field, relying on state of the art research and analyses. The PCACDR was made of 18 members (scholars, former dissidents, intellectuals) and was chaired by University of Maryland Professor of Politics Vladimir Tismaneanu, an internationally recognized authority on Romanian and world communism. Twenty-one experts provided their assistance in the writing of the Final Report's chapters. Its conclusions were presented by the President of Romania, Traian Basescu, in a speech delivered on December 18, 2006, in joint session of the two chambers of the Parliament. The Final Report has been published in November 2007 by the prestigious Humanitas Publishing House, its co-editors being Vladimir Tismaneanu, Dorin Dobrincu (General Director of the National Archives of Romania) and Cristian Vasile (Scientific Secretary of the PCACDR). It generated intense soul-searching debates, allowing the Romanian public to confront some of the most disturbing and tragic pages in the country's 20th century history.
Vladimir Tismaneanu discusses the conclusions of the Final Report in dialogue with Traian Ungureanu and Calin-Andrei Mihailescu at the prestigious Harriman Institute, with an introduction by its director, Catharine Nepomnyashchy.
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