Prague Spring

Author : Simon Mawer
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408711132

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It's the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent, and themselves, to discover. Somewhere in southern Germany they decide, on a whim, to visit Czechoslovakia where Alexander Dubcek's 'socialism with a human face' is smiling on the world. Meanwhile Sam Wareham, a first secretary at the British embassy in Prague, is observing developments in the country with a mixture of diplomatic cynicism and a young man's passion. In the company of Czech student Lenka Konecková, he finds a way into the world of Czechoslovak youth, its hopes and its ideas. It seems that, for the first time, nothing is off limits behind the Iron Curtain. Yet the wheels of politics are grinding in the background. The Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev is making demands of Dubcek and the Red Army is massed on the borders. How will the looming disaster affect those fragile lives caught up in the invasion?

Author : Jarom¡r Navr til
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9639116157

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The Prague Spring 1968 by Jarom¡r Navr til Pdf

"In addition to revealing the events surrounding the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, this is the first book to document a Cold War crisis from both sides of the Iron Curtain. It is based on unprecedented access to the previously closed archives of each member of the Warsaw Pact, as well as once highly classified American documents from the National Security Council, CIA, and other intelligence agencies." "Presented in a highly readable volume, the book offers top-level documents from Kremlin Politburo meetings, multilateral sessions of the Warsaw Pact leading up to the decision to invade, transcripts of KGB-recorded telephone conversations between Leonid Brezhnev and Alexander Dubcek." "To provide a historical and political context, the editors have prepared essays to introduce each section of the volume. A chronology, glossary and bibliography offer further background information for the reader." "The editors have a unique perspective to offer to foreign audiences since they are members of the commission appointed by Vaclav Havel to investigate the events of 1967-1970."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Kieran Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0521588030

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The Prague Spring and Its Aftermath by Kieran Williams Pdf

The Prague Spring of 1968 was among the most important episodes in post-war European politics. In this book Kieran Williams analyses the attempt at reform socialism under Alexander Dubcek using materials and sources which have become available in the wake of the 1989 revolution. Drawing on declassified documents from party archives, the author readdresses important questions surrounding the Prague Spring: Why did liberalization occur? What was it intended to achieve? Why did the Soviet Union intervene with force? What was the political outcome of the invasion? What part did the reformers play in ending the experiment in reform socialism? What was the role of the security police under Dubcek? The book will provide new information for specialists as well as introductory analysis and narrative for students of East European politics and history and Soviet foreign policy.

Author : Günter Bischof,Stefan Karner,Peter Ruggenthaler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0739143042

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The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 by Günter Bischof,Stefan Karner,Peter Ruggenthaler Pdf

On August 20, 1968, tens of thousands of Soviet and East European ground and air forces moved into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country in an attempt to end the "Prague Spring" reforms and restore an orthodox Communist regime. The leader of the Soviet Communist Party, Leonid Brezhnev, was initially reluctant to use military force and tired to pressure his counterpart in Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubccaron;ek, to crack down. But during the summer of 1968, after several months of careful deliberations, the Soviet Politburo finally decided that military force was the only option left. A large invading force of Soviet, Polish, Hungarian and Bulgarian troops received final orders to move into Czechoslovakia; within twenty-four hours they had established complete military control of Czechoslovakia, bringing and end to hopes for "socialism with a human face."

Author : Martin Klimke,Jacco Pekelder,Joachim Scharloth
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857451071

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Between Prague Spring and French May by Martin Klimke,Jacco Pekelder,Joachim Scharloth Pdf

Abandoning the usual Cold War–oriented narrative of postwar European protest and opposition movements, this volume offers an innovative, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive perspective on two decades of protest and social upheaval in postwar Europe. It examines the mutual influences and interactions among dissenters in Western Europe, the Warsaw Pact countries, and the nonaligned European countries, and shows how ideological and political developments in the East and West were interconnected through official state or party channels as well as a variety of private and clandestine contacts. Focusing on issues arising from the cross-cultural transfer of ideas, the adjustments to institutional and political frameworks, and the role of the media in staging protest, the volume examines the romanticized attitude of Western activists to violent liberation movements in the Third World and the idolization of imprisoned RAF members as martyrs among left-wing circles across Western Europe.

Author : Vladimir V. Kusin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521526523

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The Intellectual Origins of the Prague Spring by Vladimir V. Kusin Pdf

A survey of the development of reformist ideas among the Czech intelligentsia after 1956.

Author : M. Mark Stolarik
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780865167513

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The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968 by M. Mark Stolarik Pdf

Essays and comments presented at an international conference held at University of Ottawa, Oct. 9-10, 2008.

Author : Jaromir Navratíl,Antonín Benčík
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633864715

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The Prague Spring, 1968 by Jaromir Navratíl,Antonín Benčík Pdf

This is the first ever documented account of a Cold War crisis as seen from both sides of the Iron Curtain. Based on unprecedented access to the previously closed archives of each member-state of the Warsaw Pact, this book offers a unique look at a deeply divisive intra-bloc crisis. Presented in a highly readable form, the book offers top-level documents from Kremlin Politburo meetings, multi-lateral sessions of the Warsaw Pact leading up to the decision to invade, and even transcriptions of KGB-recorded phone conversations between Leonid Brezhnev and Alexander Dubcek. Once highly classified American documents from the National Security Council, CIA, and other relevant agencies acquired through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act have also been included. In order to provide a historical and political context, the editors have included an introductory essay for each section of the volume. A chronology, glossary, and bibliography offer further background information for the reader. As members of the commission appointed by Václav Havel to investigate the events of 1967-1970, the editors have a unique Czech-Slovak perspective to offer to foreign audiences.

Author : Karen Dawisha
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520049713

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The Kremlin and the Prague Spring by Karen Dawisha Pdf

Author : Mikhail Gorbachev,Zdenek Mlynar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231529273

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Conversations with Gorbachev by Mikhail Gorbachev,Zdenek Mlynar Pdf

Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. Although one was a Russian and the other a Czech, they were both ardent supporters of communism and socialism. One took part in laying the groundwork for and carrying out the Prague spring; the other opened a new political era in Soviet world politics. In 1993 they decided that their conversations might be of interest to others and so they began to tape-record them. This book is the product of that “thinking out loud” process. It is an absorbing record of two friends trying to explain to one another their views on the problems and events that determined their destinies. From reminiscences of their starry-eyed university days to reflections on the use of force to “save socialism” to contemplation of the end of the cold war, here is a far more candid picture of Gorbachev than we have ever seen before.

Author : Paulina Bren
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801462146

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The Greengrocer and His TV by Paulina Bren Pdf

The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of "socialism with a human face." Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of television to advance political and social change. In its aftermath, Communist Party leaders employed the medium to achieve "normalization," pitching television stars against political dissidents in a televised spectacle that defined the times. The Greengrocer and His TV offers a new cultural history of communism from the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution that reveals how state-endorsed ideologies were played out on television, particularly through soap opera-like serials. In focusing on the small screen, Paulina Bren looks to the "normal" of normalization, to the everyday experience of late communism. The figure central to this book is the greengrocer who, in a seminal essay by Václav Havel, symbolized the ordinary citizen who acquiesced to the communist regime out of fear. Bren challenges simplistic dichotomies of fearful acquiescence and courageous dissent to dramatically reconfigure what we know, or think we know, about everyday life under communism in the 1970s and 1980s. Deftly moving between the small screen, the street, and the Central Committee (and imaginatively drawing on a wide range of sources that include television shows, TV viewers' letters, newspapers, radio programs, the underground press, and the Communist Party archives), Bren shows how Havel's greengrocer actually experienced "normalization" and the ways in which popular television serials framed this experience. Now back by popular demand, socialist-era serials, such as The Woman Behind the Counter and The Thirty Adventures of Major Zeman, provide, Bren contends, a way of seeing—literally and figuratively—Czechoslovakia's normalization and Eastern Europe's real socialism.

Author : Jiri Pehe
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015013412161

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The Prague Spring by Jiri Pehe Pdf

From the John Holmes Library collection.

Author : Kevin McDermott,Matthew Stibbe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319770697

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Eastern Europe in 1968 by Kevin McDermott,Matthew Stibbe Pdf

This collection of thirteen essays examines reactions in Eastern Europe to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Countries covered include the Soviet Union and specific Soviet republics (Ukraine, Moldavia, the Baltic States), together with two chapters on Czechoslovakia and one each on East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia and Albania. The individual contributions explain why most of these communist regimes opposed Alexander Dubček’s reforms and supported the Soviet-led military intervention in August 1968, and why some stood apart. They also explore public reactions in Eastern Europe to the events of 1968, including instances of popular opposition to the crushing of the Prague Spring, expressions of loyalty to Soviet-style socialism, and cases of indifference or uncertainty. Among the many complex legacies of the East European ‘1968’ was the development of new ways of thinking about regional identity, state borders, de-Stalinisation and the burdens of the past.

Author : Miklós Kun
Publisher : Akademiai Kiads
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015042470628

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Prague Spring, Prague Fall by Miklós Kun Pdf

Mikls Kun spent nearly a decade researching the blank spots of the Prague Spring of 1968. The interviewees, who were on opposite sides of the barricade, reveal many secrets. Their stories are indispensable to the reconstruction process of what actually happened in Czechoslovakia in 1968. In the introduction of each interview, Kun confronts the results of historical research with the personal accounts of the interviews.

Author : Martin Previšić
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110655124

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Breaking Down Bipolarity by Martin Previšić Pdf

This book is aimed at presenting fresh views, interpretations, and reinterpretations of some already researched issues relating to the Yugoslav foreign policy and international relations up to year 1991. Yugoslavia positioned itself as a communist state that was not under the heel of the Soviet diplomacy and policy and as such was perceived by the West as an acceptable partner and useful tool in counteracting the Soviet influence.