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  title info:
    title: Prague spring
    sub title: Warsaw Pact invasion, 1968
  name:
    name part: Carradice, Phil
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 128 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Cold War nadir. January 1968 and in Czechoslovakia the new Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek has made it clear that this is the opportunity to loosen the Soviet stranglehold on the country. As the Prague winter slowly eases into a Prague spring, it really does seem as if Dubcek has judged it right. Reforms in oppressive censorship laws, improved housing, a lessening of totalitarian oppression, Dubcek promises and delivers on it all. The new regime in Czechoslovakia does seek to destroy communism but it does want to choose its own political destiny. And then, on the night of 20/21 August the Prague Spring is crushed by the Warsaw Pact invasion. 200,000 Communist troops, mostly Soviet but also Polish and East German, flood the country. The resulting protests and rallies against the invasion, mostly by young people, are violent and bloody. Hundreds die in clashes. Self-immolation, in public and before the eyes of the world, brings home the horror and the depth of feeling in the Czech people. It is the end of the Prague Spring, the reformation of Czechoslovakia having ended in ruins. But despite the brutal crushing of Czech hopes and dreams, the events of 1968 lay the foundations for future change. It will take another two decades but it is, ultimately, where the unraveling of the Communist bloc begins.
  note: Phil Carradice.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-124) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-cs---
  subject:
    geographic: Czechoslovakia
    topic: History
    temporal: Intervention, 1968
  subject:
    geographic: Czechoslovakia
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1968-1989
  subject:
    geographic: Czechoslovakia
    topic: History
    temporal: 1968-1989
  classification: 943.7042
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cold War 1945-1991 (Pen & Sword Military (Firm))
  identifier: 9781526757005
  identifier: 1526757001
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 190321
    record change date: 20200117110140.0
    record identifier: in00004084213