Andrei Sakharov / Thoughts on progress, peaceful coexistence, and intellectual freedom.
Vaclav Havel / The power of the powerless.
Alfred Herrhausen / New horizons in Europe.
Reiner Kunze / Tales from The Wonderful Years.
Reiner Kunze / Life and consequences: being a writer in divided Germany.
Edith Anderson / Town mice and country mice: the East German Revolution.
Eric Gabriel / November in Berlin.
Gunter Grass / Don't reunify Germany.
Ewa Kuryluk / Poland-The world's guinea pig.
Leszek Balcerowicz / The price of Polish economic reform.
Adam Michnik / The moral and spiritual origins of solidarity.
Josef Skvorecky / Czech writers: politicians in spite of themselves.
Vaclav Havel / Four essays.
Tamas Aczel / Hungary hearts.
George Paul Csicsery / The siege on Nogradi Street, Budapest, 1989.
Norman Manea / Romania: three lines with commentary.
Thomas A. Oleszczuk / The peaceful revolution in Lithuania.
John Jekabson / Economic independence is not enough for Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia.
William M. Brinton / Gorbachev and the revolution of 1989.
"Z" (anonymous) / To the Stalin Mausoleum.
Mikhail Gorbachev / Address to the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee's Plenary Meeting, February 5, 1990.
William M. Brinton / The role of the media in a telerevolution.
William M. Brinton / The Helsinki Final Act and other international covenants supporting freedom and human rights.
Vaclav Havel / Address to the United States Congress, February 1990.