Summary: | The audio recording of the international conference "Between Past and Future: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Struggle for Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe." Numerous leading scholars, journalists and public figures came to CEU on March 26–28, 1999. Conference participants examined the legacy of the revolutions of 1989 and the prospects for continued democratic consolidation in the coming decade. Among the participants and the speakers, alphabetically: Timothy Garton Ash (Oxford scholar), Sorin Antohi (CEU Academic Pro-Rector), Gábor Demszky (Budapest Mayor), Árpád Göncz (President of the Republic of Hungary), Richard Holbrooke (U.S. Special Envoy to Yugoslavia), Kovacs Laszlo (Foreign Minister), Adam Michnik, prominent Solidarity activist and Editor of Gazeta Wyborcza, Ambassadro Dick Miles (chief of mission in Belgrade), Jacques Rupnik (Institute of Political Studies, Paris), István Rév (Director of the OSA Archivum), Ambassador James Carew Rosapepe (US ambassador to Romania) and G.M. Tamás (Georgetown University), Ambassador Peter Tufo (Ambassador to Hungary). The conference was chaired by Kati Marton.
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