On the thirtieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia from November to December 1989 this book gathers dissident academics a student leader and a foreign correspondent to discuss the revolution. These interviews however are not just the recollections of participantsthey are also deliberations on the history of Czechoslovakia the fall of the Soviet Union from the perspective of Central Europe and the values that form the Czech nation. Accompan