The Authors 7 // Introduction: The Democracy Seminars and Beyond - Elźbieta Matynia 11 // Prologue: Early Discussions in Warsaw, Budapest, New York 1986-1989 19 // I. Continuity and Change // The Future of Central Europe’s Civil Society 33 - Jan Urban // Eastern Europe: An Uneasy Space for Liberal Democracy 37 - Calm Anastasia // The Ancien Regime in Serbia 40 - Ivan Vejvoda // Between Democracy and Democratize) tion 51 - Pavel Campeanu // The Velvet Restoration 56 - Adam Michnik // Between Reform and Revolution: Three Hypotheses about the Nature of the Regime Change 63 - János Kis // Animal Farm Scenarios: The Comeback of the Former Communists, and Why There is No Reason to Worry 82 - Miklós Haraszti // Transition or Tragedy? 89 - Dimitr Dimitrov // Limits and Dilemmas of the Transition 92 . Andrei Marga // II. Constituting Democracy // The Devil of Our Times 103 . Adam Michnik // The Blindness of the Deaf 108 - Jan Urban // Human Rights and the Post-Communist Order: The Case of Poland 112 - Ewa Lątowska // Patterns of Constitutional Evolution and Change in Eastern Europe 116 - Ulrich Preuss // Seediness 128 - Alex Grigorievs // Could Russia Become a State of Law? Thoughts on the Place of Law in the Russian Counsciousness 131 - Anatolii Tikholaz