"Alina yearns for freedom. She and her husband Liviu are teachers in their twenties, living under the repressive regime of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in the Socialist Republic of Romania in the 1970s. But after her brother-in-law defects, Alina and Liviu fall under suspicion and surveillance, and their lives are suddenly turned upside down--just like the glasses in her superstitious Aunt Theresa's house that are used to ward off evil spirits....

"Herbert Aptheker's new book is a striking pragmatic argument for reconciliation. He begins by setting forth views of Marx, Engels and Lenin on religion and then discusses the most prevalent distortions of these views. Current re-examinations of Marxism by such theologicans as Jürgen Moltmann, Paul Lehmann, and Charles West are also analyzed and discussed"--From back cover.