Events Detail

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Our panel begins with a documentary of the 1956 Revolution. The film will be followed by a discussion of the causes and consequences of the Revolution by those who took part in it. It will then take up the questions of how Hungary made the transition from a communist dictatorship to a multi-party democracy in 1989, to what extent the democratic revolution was constrained and distorted by that transition, and how it contributed to the end of Soviet communism in Europe. Finally, we will examine the current political crisis in light of Hungary’s political and economic progress since 1989.

The panel discussion following the film will feature, among others, Maximilian Teleki, president of the Hungarian American Coalition; Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, contributing editor for U.S. News & World Report; Paul Hollander, editor of From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States; and will be moderated by John O’Sullivan, Director of Hudson’s Center for European Studies.

To RSVP, please email name and affiliation to Richard Weitz at Weitz@hudson.org.

Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center, Hudson Institute, 1015 15th Street, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, D.C.