The Századvég Foundation earned a strategic grant at the International Visegrad Fund in 2009 for the implementation of the project titled „Oral History: Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Central and Eastern European Transition”. The Foundation co-operates with several organizations in the region. Its partners are: the Budapest-based International Centre for Democratic Transition, the Kempelen Farkas Association from Bratislava, the Czech Liberal Conservative Academy (Liberálné Konzervativní Akademie, CEVRO) and the Civic Education Development Center (Centrum Rozwoju Edukacji Obywatelskiej, CREO) from Poland.

The project aims at commemorating the 20th anniversary of the democratic transitions of Central and Eastern Europe by conducting interviews with prominent figures of the events and publishing interrelated books summarizing their lessons learned, to provide detailed and authentic knowledge on the topic.

The implementation of the project takes place between August 2008 and February 2011. As a result of the work accomplished, a series of interviews have been conducted and two books have already been published. The Hungarian-English bilingual monograph examining the past 20 years, written by Gábor G. Fodor and András Kern, was issued in 2009 with the title The Crisis of the Regime Change. A publication called Accelerated History, collecting 18 interviews with Hungarian personalities, was edited by Iván Bába and launched in early 2010.

Two more books are under preparation in the frame of the project. Based on the findings of previously conducted interviews, a study volume in English will be published at end of 2010, which will present to the foreign audience the role of the parties and movements in the political regime change in Hungary. A series of Hungarian and foreign interviews have been conducted, which will be edited in another volume focusing on the foreign policy aspects of the CEE transitions, scheduled to be launched in early 2011.