Introduction / Unity and division: the opposition roundtable and its relationship to the Communist party / From 'model change' to regime change: the metamorphosis of the MSZMP's tactics in the democratic transition / Making of a political elite: participants in the Hungarian Roundtable Talks of 1989 / Institution building in Hungary: analytical issues and constitutional models, 1989-90 / Beyond the one-party system: the debate on the "party law" / Negotiated origins of the electoral system / Role of non-elite forces in Hungary's negotiated revolution / Regime change and the tradition of 1956 / Roundtables, democratic institutions and the problem of justice / Back to Europe: the international background of the political transition in Hungary, 1988-90 / Introduction to the documents / Proclamation of the Independent Lawyers' Forum to the organizations of the opposition (March 15, 1989) -- Proposal of the Opposition Roundtable to the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Worker's Party (April 19th, 1989) -- Agreement on the commencement of National Roundtable Talks (June 13th, 1989) -- Opening plenary meeting of the National Roundtable Talks (June 13th, 1989) -- Agreement among members of the National Roundtable on the thematic structure and schedule of the talks (June 21st, 1989) -- Plenary session of the National Roundtable Talks (June 21st, 1989) -- Plenary session of the National Roundtable Talks (September 18th, 1989) -- Agreement concluding the Political Reconciliation Talks. June 13th to September 18th, 1989 (September 18th, 1989) -- Chronology of the Hungarian Roundtable Talks. January 1989-April 1990 / Biographies of the key participants