The Survival of Democracy in Eastern Europe, with Ivan Krastev, Timothy Garton Ash and Brian Klaas

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🗓️ 12 November 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In November 1989, 30 years ago this month, the collapse of the Berlin Wall ushered in a new era of democracy in Eastern Europe. But today, with populist strongmen like Orban in Hungary and Kaczyński in Poland on the rise, the future of democracy in the region looks uncertain. In this episode we were joined by Ivan Krastev, the Bulgarian political scientist and co-author of The Light That Failed and Oxford University's Timothy Garton Ash, who wrote The Magic Lantern, a book about the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe which came out thirty years ago this year. The conversation was moderated by Brian Klaas, the political scientist, Washington Post columnist and author of The Despot's Apprentice. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.1	Square podcast we have a special conversation with Yvonne Krasdev, the Bulgarian political scientist
1:09.7	and author of The Light that Failed in conversation with Timothy Garton Ash, who is an acclaimed historian at Oxford University, and he had a book out called The Magic Lantern, which came out in 1989, about the fall of communism and the revolution sweeping across Eastern Europe at the time.
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