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Prof. Tamás Horváth M. is a lawyer and researcher. He was born in 1960, and obtained his degree from the Faculty of Law at ELTE University of Budapest. In the 1980s he worked within the Soviet model of public administration, and later became a researcher at the Hungarian Institute for Public Administration. His research fields include the studying of self-governments, the organization of the state-run public duties, and the management of public services. As a researcher, he worked for the National University of Public Administration until 2007.

Zsolt Horváth is historian, editor, and teacher. He was born in 1964 in Szombathely. He received his degree in literature, history, and museology from the Loránd Eötvös University of Budapest. He was member of the Eötvös College. Later he completed his PhD in contemporary history at the Loránd Eötvös University. From 2002 to 2011, he was member of Social Research Center Science Library. Since 2012 he has been working for the Institute of History and in 1990 he joined the Foundation of Contemporary History.

Petr Hrabalik is a musician, composer, lyrics author and singer. Since the first half of the 1980s, he was active in music bands influenced by underground, and later, punk. He is well known mostly because of his activity in the hard-core music band “Našrot”. Petr Hrabalik is also a music historian. He collaborated on the making of the documentary TV series Bigbít (1998, Czech Television). He has been responsible for the website of that TV series since 2001, including the broad overview of world rock music in the twentieth century that was added later on. He initiated the founding of the museum and archive of pop music (the Popmuseum), where the archive materials were originally stored after they were collected for the filming of the TV series. He also collaborated on the making of the documentary series “Fenomén Underground” between 2012 and 2014, for which he also created a website.

László Hubai is a historian, researcher, and academic. He graduated from secondary school in Szolnok. He received his degree in mechanical engineering in 1979 from the University of Miskolc and became a teacher of history in 1985 in Budapest. In 1992 he launched research on parliamentary elections (1920–1947, 1990), setting up several relevant databases. In 1993 he joined in the research of Parliamentary Almanacs for the Foundation of Contemporary History, and in 1998 became the editor of the Almanac series. He has lectured at ELTE since 2007, at the Corvinus University Faculty of Administration (2008–2011), and at the National University of Public Administration and the University of Szeged (2010–2013). Since 2001 he has been lecturing at Milton Friedman (previously King Sigismund) University in Budapest. His main research fields include the history of parliamentary elections, archontology, and geoinformatics.

Jaroslav Hutka was a Czech folk musician, writer and signatory of Charter 77. He studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague from 1962–1966, however he did not finish his studies. After leaving the academy, he became involved in music. He performed solo or with other folk musicians (e.g. Vladimír Merta and Vlasta Třešňák). In 1972 Hutka founded the music association Šafrán with like-minded musicians, which operated for six years. Under this name, a record label producing songs by banned Czechoslovak musicians was also founded in exile. After signing Charter 77, Hutka was prevented from performing publicly and was forced to leave Czechoslovakia in 1978. He settled in Rotterdam where he founded the Fosil record label (1986), producing mostly his own songs. He spent the final phase of his exile in Cologne (1988–1989). In Czechoslovakia Hutka published his texts in samizdat volumes. After his forced emigration from Czechoslovakia, he contributed to Czechoslovak exile periodicals (e. g. Listy, Zpravodaj, Obrys) and collaborated with Radio Free Europe.

In November 1989 he returned to Prague and was one of the most important musicians of the Velvet Revolution. He also continued writing music and literature, which included a critical social tone regarding the newly establishing society. He published several books. He also co-operated externally with Czech Radio and Czech Television. In 2012, he received an award from the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes for the Freedom of Democracy and Human Rights. Six years later, he was awarded the honorary citizenship of the City of Prague.

Jaroslav Hutka’s songs are very melodic and inspired by folk songs. His song lyrics are often nostalgic, humorous, ironic, with a certain amount of social and political protest. Hutka’s poetry is more intimate and reflects the inner doubts, searching and torment of an individual in a totalitarian world.