Concentration camp survivor, former Marxist-Leninist and Lithuanian patriot, Aleksandras Shtromas devoted his life to understanding totalitarianism and political change. He was a remarkably prescient thinker and is probably best known for his prediction of the fall of the Soviet Union, forecast at a time when the might empire seemed almost invincible. This posthumous collection of writings addresses some of the topics that preoccupied Shtromas throughout his life, including totalitarian regimes, post-communist transitions, the fates of the Baltic states, and the nature of political revolutions.