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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter I. The Role of Intellectuals: Theories and Interpretive Frameworks
1. Who are the intellectuals?
1.1. Conceptual approaches
1.2. Classical theories of intellectuals
1.3. Theories of the New Class
1.4. Modern theories of intellectuals

2. Intellectuals and social movements

3. Intellectuals and politics in Central Europe

Chapter II. The Political Context: Censorship and Co-optation
1. Censorship and the press in the late Kádár era
1.1. The practice of controlling the press
1.2. Mechanisms of informal control
1.3. The collapse of selective repression

2. Strategies of co-optation: “Intelligentsia-policy” in the one-party system
2.1. Celebrities, seigneurs, confidents, and his “court”
2.2. Reformers, civilian groups, and sympathizers

Chapter III. Dissident Intellectuals: The Culture of Critical Discourse
1. Opposition groups
1.1. The flowers of decay
1.2. The rise of samizdat

2. The dissidents between state and society

3. The topics of the samizdat journals
3.1. Moral politics
3.2. The question of national minorities
3.3. Churches and peace activism
3.4. Environmentalism
3.5. Cultural criticism

4. The historical memory of the democratic opposition
4.1. Revolution, retribution, and capitulation
4.2. Anniversary celebrations
4.3. Central Europe rediscovered
4.4. The taboos fall: The situation of minorities
4.5. Alternatives in economic policy
4.6. The perceptions of normality
4.7. Historical memory

5. The debate of the Beszélő circle on strategy
5.1. Perspectives of the future
5.2. Political goals
5.3. The possible ways of change

Chapter IV. From Moral Principles to Political Action
1. The ideas of the dissidents
1.1. Humanization of power
1.2. Antipolitics
1.3. Disobedience
1.4. Civil society
1.5. Human rights

2. The identity of the democratic opposition

3. Open network-building and party formation
3.1. Forms of organization
3.2. The rhetoric of crisis

Chapter V Regime Change and Elite Change
1. Patterns of transition: Poland and Hungary

2. Elite change: The rise of reform intellectuals and the technocracy
2.1. Reform economists
2.2. The ideology of modernization
2.3. The technocracy

3. The Roundtable talks as elite settlement
3.1. The rediscovery of elite theory
3.2. Three theories of post-communist elite change

4. Co-optation, cooperation, contestation

Chapter VI. Negotiated Revolution: The Strategy of the Opposition
1. The meaning of the Roundtable talks

2. From model change to regime change
2.1. Tactical maneuvers
2.2. Preparatory talks between the Opposition Roundtable and the MSZMP
2.3. The reburial of Imre Nagy

3. Constitution-making at the National Roundtable talks
3.1. The structure of the talks
3.2. Shifting positions
3.3. Major steps forward, limited results

4. From the referendum to the free elections

5. Imagined democracy: Fundamental values
5.1. Freedom and popular sovereignty
5.2. Representative democracy
5.3. Nonviolence
5.4. Broad consensus
5.5. Back to Europe!

6. The past revisited: Historical references
6.1. The revolutionary tradition
6.2. The tradition of institution-building
6.3. Break and the new beginning

Chapter VII. Intellectuals as Legislators

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