| Introduction: The Final Revolution | 3 |
| The Quest for the Millennium | 4 |
| Back to the Present | 6 |
| The Tyranny of the Political | 10 |
| The Priority of Conscience | 12 |
1 | Not by Politics Alone: Unwrapping the Revolution of 1989 | 15 |
| The Standard Account: Mikhail Gorbachev Did It | 18 |
| The Realist Account: Ronald Reagan Did It | 21 |
| The Diplomatic Account: The Helsinki Final Act Did It | 26 |
| The Great Ideas: Economics and/or History Did It | 30 |
| The Heart of the Matter | 33 |
2 | Calling Good and Evil by Name: The Communist Lie Confronted | 37 |
| Signs Among the Onions | 39 |
| The Web of Mendacity | 41 |
| From Complicity to Resistance | 47 |
| Revolutionary Morality, Reconsidered | 50 |
| Breaking the Fever of Fear | 55 |
3 | Catholics and Commissars: 1917-1978 | 59 |
| Opening Gambits | 60 |
| The Confrontation Intensified | 64 |
| John XXIII and the Spirit of Dialogue | 67 |
| Vatican II and the Catholic Human Rights Revolution | 70 |
| A New Ostpolitik: The Quest for a Reasonable Accommodation | 74 |
4 | The Wojtyla Difference | 77 |
| Whose Humanism? | 78 |
| A Man for This Season | 79 |
| "Breathing Space" | 85 |
| A Changed Game | 88 |
| Training for Moral Combat | 90 |
| Going on Offense: The Ostpolitik of John Paul II | 93 |
| Questions of Conviction | 96 |
5 | Poland: Igniting the Revolution | 103 |
| Saddling the Cow: Stalinist Poland, 1944-1956 | 104 |
| The Years of the "Great Novena": 1956-1970 | 111 |
| Prelude to Revolution: 1970-1978 | 122 |
| The Rise of Solidarity: 1978-1981 | 128 |
| The Hard Road to Freedom: 1982-1989 | 145 |
| The Challenge of the Free Society | 155 |
6 | Czechoslovakia: A Church Reborn in Resistance | 159 |
| From Gigantism to "Normalization" | 161 |
| A Taste of Ashes | 166 |
| Rebirth in Resistance | 174 |
| St. Agnes's Gentle Revolution | 183 |
| The Lazarus Church | 185 |
7 | No Monopolies on Virtue: Christian Conviction and the Democratic Prospect | 191 |
| The Communist Hangover | 193 |
| The Church Being Itself | 195 |
| Truth and Freedom | 199 |
| The Peace and Freedom Connection | 203 |
| Surprises from the Lord of History | 205 |
| Notes | 211 |
| Index | 247 |