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Zdenek Mlynar
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Archie Brown

Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction
Translator's Note
Author's Preface
CONVERSATION ONE: The Criss-Crossing of our Paths
1. Student Communists
2. New Hopes and New Disappointments
3. Twenty Years, Divergent Paths
CONVERSATION TWO: How We Sought to Reinvigorate Socialism
1 .The Prague Spring and its Defeat
2. More Democracy, More Socialism
3. Freedom of Choice Either Exists or It Doesn't
4. An Airplane Took Off, Not Knowing Where It Would Land
5. What to Do With the Party ?
6. Can the Use of Force "Save Socialism"?
CONVERSATION THREE: There's Only One World
1. Breaking Out of the Dead End of the Cold War
2. Socialism is Alive as a World Process
3. At a Crossroads of Civilization
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS The Conscience of the Reformer
Index

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