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Europes future and the great gamble of monetary union the times literary supplement, 15 may 1995. He further indicates that the causes of these refolutions. Timothy garton ash cmg frsa born 12 july 1955 is a british historian, author and commentator. Whether covering polands first free parliamentary electionsin which solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of its victoryor sitting in at the meetings of an unlikely coalition of bohemian intellectuals. Timothy garton ash was there in warsaw, on 4 june, when the communist government was humiliated by. The direction of european history timothy garton ash the tanner lectures on human values delivered at charles university prague.
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