Refections on the Impact of the French Revolution is an English version of La sfu00e2r?it de ciclu, a series of essays on the consequences of the French Revolution for nineteenth and twentieth-century culture and civilization, especially that of the Romanian lands, by one of modern Romaniau2019s leading historians, Academician Alexandru Zub. This translation, the first of Zubu2019s remarkable contributions to historical scholarship to appear in English, makes available to an international audience his analysis of the complex of problems initiated by the French Revolution (as they have played out over the last two centuries), of the prophetic perceptions of the Revolution elaborated by Alexis de Tocqueville, and of the impact of the u201cmoment of 1789u201d and de Tocqueville on Romanian culture. The book is edited by Paul E. Michelson, an American specialist on nineteenth-century Romanian history and a scholar intimately familiar with Romanian historiography, who also provides an introduction to Alexandru Zub and his work for foreign readers in an informative preface. One of Romaniau2019s most distinguished historians, Alexandru Zub is a member of the Romanian Academy and author of numerous books and articles on Romanian history and historiography.