Introduction Michal Kopecek (ICH, Prague), Piotr Wcislik (CEU, Budapest): Towards Intellectual History of Post-Socialism Liberalism: Dissident Illusions and Disillusions Ferenc Laczó (Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena): Five Faces of Post-Dissident Hungarian Liberalism: A Study in Agendas, Concepts and Ambiguities Piotr Wcislik (CEU, Budapest): Totalitarianism and The Limits of the Political Thought of Polish Dissidents: Late Socialism and After. Milan Znoj (Charles University, Prague): Václav Havel, His Idea of Civil Society and the Czech Liberal Tradition Paul Blokker (University of Trento): The (Re-)Emergence of Constitutionalism in East-Central Europe Conservatism: A Counter-Revolution? Petr Roubal (ICH, Prague): The Conservative Counter-Revolution: Post-Dissident Neoconservatives in Post-communist Transformation. Rafal Matyja (WSB-NLU, Nowy Sacz): Polish Conservatism after Communism: Tradition of Sovereignty and Sovereignty of Tradition Zoltán Gábor Szucs (Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest): The Abortion of a 'Conservative’ Constitution-Making: A Discourse Analysis of the 1994-1998 Failed Hungarian Constitution-Making Enterprise Populism: Endemic Pasts and Global Effects Camil Alexandru Parvu (University of Bucharest): Populism and Democratic Malaise in Post-Communist Romania András Bozóki (CEU, Budapest): Configurations of Populism in Hungary Juraj Buzalka (Comenius University, Bratislava): The Political Lives of Dead Populists in Post-Socialist Slovakia The Left: Between Communist Legacy and Neoliberal Challenge Agnes Gagyi (Moholy-Nagy University of Arts, Budapest): Non-Post-Communist Left in Hungary after 1989: Diverging Paths of Leftist Criticism, Civil Activism and Radicalizing Constituency Maciej Gdula (University of Warsaw): The Architecture of Revival: Left-Wing Ideas and Politics in Poland after 2002 Stanislav Holubec (Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena): Czech Post-Communist Intellectual Left. Twenty Years of Seeking Own Identity Zsófia Lóránd (CEU, Budapest): Feminist Criticism of the “New Democracies” in Serbia and Croatia in the early 1990s Politics of History: Nations, Wars, Revolutions James Mark (University of Exeter), Muriel Blaive (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Vienna), Adam Hudek (Historical Institute SAV, Bratislava), Anna Saunder, Stanislaw Tyszka: Remembering the End of Communism in East-Central Europe Gábor Egry (Institute of Political History, Budapest): A Fate for a Nation. Concepts of History and the Nation in the Hungarian Politics, 1989-2010 Stevo Ðuraškovic (University of Zagreb): From “Husakism” to “Meciarism”: The National Identity-Building Discourse of the Slovak left-wing Intellectuals in the 1990s Slovakia Zoltán Dujisin (CEU, Budapest): Post-Communist Europe: On the Path to Regional Regime of Remembrance?