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Youth, Education and Culture in the New Europe
Wisdom and Knowledge
The Existential Quest
Developing Economies with Human Capital
Basic Business Ethics: State and Subsidiarity
Frank S. Meyer: Speaking of Freedom
My Experience with Communism
Otto von Habsburg
Human Dignity and the Failure of Communism, Stephane Courtois
Human Dignity, Vaclav Havel
Europe of the 20th Century and Guidelines for the 21st
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski
Communism and the Human Person, Mart Laar
Solidarity Movement, Philosophy and Success, Lena Lipowicz
European Identity and the Free Movement of Persons
Dr. Roman Joch
Communism and Europe: Yesterday and Today
Jozsef Szajer
Law and Freedom in the Central EUropean Context
The Rule of Law and Free Society
Fifteen Years after the Velvet Revolution
New Perspectives On Free Society
Formulating a Foreign Policy for the West: a Conservative View
Population Implosion in Europe: Catastrophy or Challenge?
Politics and Peace Initiative
(recent activity)

Human Dignity and the Failure of Communism
November 5, 2004
Dr. Stephane Courtois

Professor Stéphane Courtois is the author of numerous books and was the co-author of The Black Book of Communism, which has sold more than one million copies worldwide. Dr. Courtois has also worked as a Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and as Director of the Group for the Study and Observation of Democracy at the University of Paris.

Dr. Courtois added his own personal history conversion from a youthful support of Maoism to his sweeping but precise presentation of the evils wrought by communism. His message was not depressing but inspiring: he called his audience to see that totalitarianism was still a danger to democracy and that the battle now depended upon the next generation.

This seminar will help me to give my students a lot of new information and to present to them the opinions of people from other CEE countries.


Blaz Torkar, History, University of Lubijana, Slovenia

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