With the occasion of the international conference entitled “Between Past and Future: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Struggle for Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe" held at CEU in March 1999, the CEU Bookshop hosted a special celebration launch for “The Revolutions of 1989”, a volume edited by Prof. Vladimir Tismăneanu with the contributions of Adam Michnik, Timothy Garton Ash, Jacques Rupnik, Katherine Verdery and Jeffrey Isaac. Introductory remarks about the book and its editor are delivered by Academic Pro-Rector and CEU Professor Sorin Antohi. A short speech about the book is given by the editor himself Prof. Vladimir Tismăneanu. After the book launch, the event continues with the fourth conference panel entitled “Vulnerabilities of the New Democracies.” Before giving the floor to the speakers of the panel, its chairman John Lampe (Professor at the University of Maryland) reads a letter from Ivan Vejvoda (Director of the Fund for an Open Society Yugoslavia) who apologized for not being able to attend the conference. The members of the panel are Katherine Verdery (Professor at the University of Michigan), Gail Kligman (UCLA), Kazimierz Poznanski (University of Washington), István Rév (Professor at CEU and Director of OSA Archivum) and Miklós Haraszti (Hungarian Writer, Journalist and Professor). The presentation recorded on this tape belongs to Katherine Verdery.