This edition of the "Over the Rubicon 1989 – Timişoara – 1990" book is mostly compliant with the text of the first issue in 2011; some data were updated (based on the subsequently published bibliography), other data and details were removed – without, thus, impacting the basic message – for printing purposes.

Upon reading several major contributions of reputed publicists, political scientists or analysts, the English reader has become familiar with the Romanian Revolution of December 1989 – with the week of fire (16-22 December 1989) in Timișoara, in particular, when the Bega river city was in the European limelight. I shall refer to the following, among others: Stephen D. Roper, Romania: The Unfinished Revolution, 2000, Routledge, London, Peter Siani-Davies,The Romanian Revolution of December 1989, 2005, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York State, George Galloway and Bob Wylie, Downfall: The Ceausescus and the Romanian Revolution, 1991, Time Warner Paperbacks, Ivo Banac (publisher), Eastern Europe in Revolution: Katherine Verdery, Gail Klingman, "Romania After Ceausescu: Post-communist Communism", 1992, Cornell University Press, Ithaca; Sorin Antohi, Vladimir Tismăneanu, Between Past and Future: The Revolutions of 1989 and Their Aftermath, 2000, Central European University Press, Budapest; Almond's book, The rise and fall of Nicolae and Elena

Ceaușescu, 1992, Chapmans Press, London;Andrei Codrescu, The hole in the flag, 1991, William Morrow and

co, New York; Richard Andrew Hall (with a PhD thesis, some fragments of which the Memorial of the Revolution of Timișoara published in the Romanian language - Rescrierea istoriei revoluţiei. Relaţiile într-un regim autoritar şi triumful revizionismului securist în România de după Ceauşescu (Rewriting the Revolution:ALEXANDRU OȘCA Authoritarian Regime-State Relations and the Triumph of Securitate Revisionism in Post-Ceausescu Romania). Most of these are subjective contributions operating an interesting selection required to substantiate a previously designed theory.