The second session of the Book of the Month series, organized jointly by CEU Review of Books and Review of Democracy, presents ”The Making of Dissidents: Hungary’s Democratic Opposition and its Western Friends, 1973-1998″, written by Victoria Harms and published by University of Pittsburgh Press in September 2024.
The panelists discussed the novelty of the approach, as The Making of Dissidents tracks the complex transnational networks that shaped the Hungarian and East-Central European dissidence. By using a fascinating set of primary sources, Victoria Harms offers a fresh perspective on the emergence of dissident networks, the ideological congruences and distinctions of the dissidents that in the 1990s shaped the political discourse.
PARTICIPANTS:
Author:
- Victoria Harms, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of History, John Hopkins University, US
Discussants:
- Kacper Szulecki, Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Adjunct Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway
- Szabolcs László, Research Fellow, Institute of History, HUN-REN Research Center for the Humanities
Moderator:
- Adrian Matus, Editor, Review of Democracy
