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June 13, 1989

Excerpts from the Opening Full Session of the Hungarian National Roundtable Negotiations

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Transcribed from previously unpublished video recordings, these discussions point to the unwritten "rules" of mutual civility that arose in the nonviolent dissident movements and found an echo among the Communist reformers during the negotiated revolutions of 1989. For example, Dr. Istvan Kukorelli from the Patriotic People’s Front proposes to "refrain from questioning the legitimacy of each other, since the legitimacy of all of us is debatable. It is a question which belongs to the future - who will be given credit by history and who will be forgotten."


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"A rendszerváltás forgatókönyve. Kerekasztal-tárgyalások 1989-ben" [Scenario of the Transition. Roundtable Talks in 1989] Editor-in-chief: András Bozóki, editors: Márta Elbert, Melinda Kalmár, Béla Révész, Erzsébet Ripp, Zoltán Ripp, Magvetö Kiadó, Bp. 1999, Vols. I-IV. Published in National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 22.

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