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Author Williams, Kieran.

Title The Prague spring and its aftermath : Czechoslovak politics, 1968-1970 / Kieran Williams.

Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  943.712042 W673p 1997    ---  Available
Description xiii, 270 pages ; 24 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-265) and index.
Contents Liberalization, intervention, and normalization -- Liberalization -- Intervention -- Normalization -- January 1968-December 1970 -- The erosion of Soviet trust -- The failure of Operation Danube -- Dubcek's normalization -- The realist ascendancy -- The security police in the Dubcek period -- After Dubcek.
Summary 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.--Publisher description.
Subject Czechoslovakia -- History -- Intervention, 1968.
Czechoslovakia -- Politics and government -- 1968-1989.
Intervention in Czechoslovakia (1968) (OCoLC)fst01353409
Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
Czechoslovakia. (OCoLC)fst01212490
Chronological Term 1968-1989
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0521582261
9780521582261
0521588030 (pbk.)
9780521588034 (pbk.)

 
    
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