This edition is the result of the response found by the book Civil Passions: 23 Questions and Answers about the Civil War, which exceeded 25,000 copies in sales. It includes two new questions that arose during the presentations-discussions of the initial edition, specifically: • How does the KKE remember the Civil War? • What was the role of ideology in the civil war? "We hope that Civil Passions will continue its successful course, thereby encouraging fruitful and substantial dialogue on a critical and particularly sensitive issue of our modern history. The course of the book is proof that we can think and discuss our difficult past with calmness and prudence. Sometimes, a small effort like this is enough to make it clear that, contrary to what various popular national myths describe, we are not the passive victims of a tragic past that we are doomed to relive constantly. In other words, we are somewhat better than the image we often carry of ourselves in our collective consciousness – and here perhaps lies the most significant legacy of this book." St. Kalyvas and N. Marantzidis