COMMUNISM'S NEGOTIATED COLLAPSE:
THE POLISH ROUND TABLE TALKS OF 1989,
TEN YEARS LATER
A Conference at the University of Michigan, April 7-10, 1999

Co-founder and National Secretary of the Democratic League of Independent Trade Unions from 1988 to 1992, Laszlo Bruszt (b. 1953) represented the unions in the Hungarian Opposition Round Table (EKA) and at the negotiations between the EKA and the communist government. Bruszt holds a master's degree in sociology from Budapest University and a doctorate in sociology from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest since 1993, he has been CEU's Vice-Rector of Academic Affairs since 1995 and served as its Acting Rector and President in 1996-97. During 1998-99, he is a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, CA. Bruszt has published several books and articles on the political transformation of East Central Europe.

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