Power and Action – Between Better and Worse
Power and Action – Between Better and Worse

Summary/Abstract: Keeping the third part of my Hungarian Review interview series on the governmental work of 1990 on the back burner, in this issue, I have proposed to print one of my unpublished talks from 1996. It is a short essay on the experience of initiation into politics, as lived by former opposition intellectuals turned government officials in 1990–94. Former Polish Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka, whom I quote in this essay, was on the panel with me. The wit she demonstrates in the anecdote quoted perhaps strikes a happy balance with the occasionally stilted tone that strikes me today in my 1996 statement. This is how I look back in 2015 on how I looked back on 1990 in 1996. But, essentially, I still read it as an authentic record.

• Details
• Contents