Witness to the Eastern Bloc revolutions of the 1980s with Professor Timothy Garton Ash
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Professor Timothy Garton Ash is a British historian, author, commentator and Professor of European Studies at Oxford University. Professor Garton Ash witnessed some of the most critical moments in the Eastern Bloc during the 1980s as these populations threw off Communist rule.
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