Abstract
Petr Agha and Jan Géryk argue in the Introduction that the hegemonic interpretation of the Velvet Revolution, which emerged from the political struggles of the early 1990s, can play the role of a brake rather than that of the accelerator of potential progressive movement of society. Thus, Agha and Géryk suggest to search for the legacy of the 1989 elsewhere than in traditional locations occupied by gate keepers who interpret 1989 through the prism of the so-called return to the West.
They recommend returning to the revolution itself, understood as a period of wide scale of potentialities as this can be more productive a reading in the struggle against the rise of authoritarianism in the Central Europe than the old neoliberal recipes.