The Anti‑Humans: Student Re‑Education in Romanian Prisons by Dumitru Bacu is a historical testimony about the brutal re‑education experiments carried out in Romanian prisons such as Pitesti and Gherla in the early 1950s. Bacu, himself imprisoned, investigates and describes the systematic use of torture, psychological coercion, and dehumanization designed to force inmates to renounce deeply held beliefs and adopt Communist ideology. The book provides detailed accounts of the conditions endured by prisoners, particularly young university students who were targeted as a group perceived by the regime as intellectually and socially influential. It explores the mechanisms of repression, the breakdown of personal identity through “re‑education,” and the extreme measures used to extract confessions and enforce ideological compliance. Bacu’s narrative combines personal experience, eyewitness testimony, and historical context to illustrate the human cost of political persecution under totalitarian systems. The work has value as a historical document that sheds light on one of the most severe episodes of political imprisonment in Eastern Europe during the early Cold War, and it serves as a reminder of the dangers of systematic abuse of power against individuals based on their beliefs.