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Roundtable: The Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe

  • Mario KESSLER (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam) : "Betrayed by 'Real Socialism'? Returnees from Western Exile as Historians in the GDR"

  • Catherine SAMARY (Université de Paris IX-Dauphine) : "From the Communist 'Concrete Utopia' to the Janus Face of the 'Vangard Party' - and Vice Versa"

  • Kristen GHODSEE (University of Pennsylvania) : "Beyond the Double Burden: Women's Rights and State Socialism in Eastern Europe"

  • Tom JUNES (European University Institute, Florence) : "From True Believers to Real Rebels: The Origins of Eastern Europe's 1968"