The first manuscript of this book went into the furnace five minutes before the arrival of the secret police in Communist Poland. The second copy, painfully reassembled under conditions of harsh repression, was sent via a courier to the Vatican. Its receipt was never acknowledged, no word was ever heard from the courier - the manuscript and all the valuable data was lost. The third and final copy was produced after one of the scientists working on the project escaped to America in the 1980s. Zbigniew Brzezinski suppressed it.

Political Ponerology was forged in the crucible of the very subject it studies. Scientists living under an oppressive regime decide to study the founders and supporters of an evil regime to determine what common factor is at play in the rise and propagation of man's inhumanity to man. Shocking in its clinically spare descriptions of the true nature of evil, this is a book that should be required reading by everyone who claims a moral or humanistic foundation. Knowledge of evil's nature, how it originates and spreads, is the only antidote.