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Hoover senior fellow Timothy Garton Ash, author of The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague, was part of a forum chaired by Hoover senior fellow Norman Naimark. The forum discussed whether the velvet revolutions of 1989 established a new model of nonviolent revolution, supplanting the violent model of 1789.

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