The Soviet Dissident Movement and American Foreign Policy during the 1980s

 10:00 a.m.

Opening Remarks

10:05 a.m.

Panel I: The First Stage: Toppling Totalitarianism—the Sakharov–Reagan Model

Moderator: Yuri Yarim–Agaev, Hoover Institution and Center for Democracy, U.S.S.R.
Mark  Palmer, U.S. Ambassador to Hungary, 1986–1990
Philip Siegelman, San Francisco State University

11:30 a.m.

Exhibit Tour: To Choose Freedom: Soviet Dissidents and Their Supporters

Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion

12:00 NOON

Lunch

1:00 p.m.

Panel II: The Second Stage: Building Democracy in a Posttotalitarian World

Moderator: John Dunlop, Hoover Institution
Richard Perle, American Enterprise Institute
Vladimir Bukovsky, former Soviet dissident and author
David Waksberg, Union of Councils for Societ Jews

2:30 p.m.

Break

3:00 p.m.

Panel III: The Present Day: Can We Apply This Model to Current Situations?

Moderator: Mike McFaul, Hoover Institution and Stanford University
Harry Rowen, Hoover Institution
Charles Wolf, Hoover Institution and RAND

4:30 p.m.

Closing

6:45 p.m.

Dinner at Stanford Faculty Club Keynote Address: “The Dissidents’ Conspiracy”

Yuri Yarim–Agaev
Introduction by Richard Sousa, Hoover Institution