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The Collapse of Communism in Europe:
A Re-examination 20 Years After

In a panel discussion chaired by Professor Archie Brown, Professor Timothy Garton Ash, University of Oxford (and Guardian columnist), Bridget Kendall, BBC Diplomatic Correspondent, Dr Andrei Grachev, Paris (former presidential press spokesman for Mikhail Gorbachev), Professor Robert Legvold, Columbia University, New York, Professor Ferenc Miszlivetz, Hungarian Academy of Sciences & University of Western Hungary, and Dr Lilia Shevtsova, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Moscow discuss the events of 1989.

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Podcasts

Introductory Remarks by Archie Brown (5MB | 6 mins)
Timothy Garton Ash (16MB | 17 mins)
Andrei Grachev (12.5MB | 13 mins)
Bridget Kendall (14MB | 15 mins)
Robert Legvold (12.5MB | 13 mins)
Ferenc Miszlivetz (17.5MB | 18.5mins)
Lilia Shevtsova (13.5MB | 14.5 mins)
Concluding Discussion (21MB | 23 mins)

Article in the British Academy Review


This event took place at the British Academy on 15 October 2009