Recording of István Rév's (Professor at CEU and Director of OSA Archivum) lecture in the the conference panel entitled “Vulnerabilities of the New Democracies” part of the “Between Past and Future: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Struggle for Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe" international conference held at CEU in March 1999. Prof. István Rév is followed by Hungarian writer, journalist and Professor Miklós Haraszti who gives the last presentations of the panel.