Miklos HARASZTI OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Vienna
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1964-1970 | Philosophy and Literature, M.A., Budapest |
1970-1971 | Put under "Police surveillance", machine-operator in a Hungarian tractor factory |
1976 | Co-founder of the Hungarian Democratic Opposition Movement |
1980 | Editor of the samizdat periodical BeszélQ |
1989 | Participation in the "round table" negotiations on transition to free elections |
1990-1994 | Member of the Hungarian Parliament |
since 1994 | Guest professor on human rights, censorship, democratization, freedom of the media |
1998 | Northwestern University's Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters |
1997-2004 | Parliament-elected Board Member of Hungarian Radio and Television |
Publikationen
1969 KöltQk, dalok, forradalmak ("Poets, Songs, Revolutions"), Editio Musica, Budapest. | |
1976 A Worker in a Worker's State, Penguin, London. Translated and published in 15 countries. | |
1980 Opposition: 0,1%, Seuil, Paris. | |
1987 The Velvet Prison: Artists Under State Socialism. Basic Books - A New Republic Book, New York. | |
Major essays and articles published abroad | |
1979 La Vitalité de la Culture Officielle, Les Temps Modernes, Paris. | |
1985 Zum Verrücktwerden: Kopfnoten eines Menschenrechtlers, Kursbuch, Berlin. | |
1989 Bury the Brezhnev Doctrine, Op-Ed article, The Washington Post, March 2nd. | |
1995 Animal Farm Scenarios: The Comeback of the Former Communists and Why It Is No Reason to Worry, Constellations. |