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Author : Robert Rhodes James
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Czechoslovak Crisis, 1968 written by Robert Rhodes James and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1969 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the John Holmes Library ccollection.
Author : Carole Fink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521646376
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (463 download)
Download or read book 1968: The World Transformed written by Carole Fink and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-28 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1968: The World Transformed presents a global perspective on the tumultuous events of the most crucial year in the era of the Cold War. By interpreting 1968 as a transnational phenomenon, authors from Europe and the United States explain why the crises of 1968 erupted almost simultaneously throughout the world. Together, the eighteen chapters provide an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the rise and fall of protest movements worldwide. The book represents an effort to integrate international relations, the role of media, and the cross-cultural exchange of people and ideas into the history of that year. 1968 emerges as a global phenomenon because of the linkages between domestic and international affairs, the powerful influence of the media, the networks of communication among activists, and the shared opposition to the domestic and international status quo in the name of freedom and self-determination.
Author : Günter Bischof
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780739143049
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 written by Günter Bischof and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert Rhodes James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789040059544
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (595 download)
Download or read book The Czechoslovak Crisis 1968 written by Robert Rhodes James and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Parrish
Publisher : Santa Barbara, Calif. : American Bibliographical Center
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The 1968 Czechoslovak Crisis written by Michael Parrish and published by Santa Barbara, Calif. : American Bibliographical Center. This book was released on 1971 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reuben Falber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780952381099
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The 1968 Czechoslovak Crisis written by Reuben Falber and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jiri Valenta
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801842979
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968 written by Jiri Valenta and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1991-11-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new edition of his highly acclaimed work, Jiri Valenta adds his assessment of Soviet military decisionmaking in the 1980s to his earlier analysis of decisionmaking and crisis management in the Soviet bureaucracy and Warsaw Pact. Comparing the events of 1968 to the Kremlin's very different reaction to reforms now under way in Czechoslovakia and the rest of Eastern Europe, Valenta shows that Soviet politics were never simple. The USSR's foreign policy response to the "Prague Spring," he contends, was the result of a complex political process conditioned by bureaucratic inertia, coalition politics, and East European pressures.
Author : Yasser Hijazi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (854 download)
Download or read book The Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968 written by Yasser Hijazi and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Staff
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781481818230
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (182 download)
Download or read book Lessons Learned from the 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia written by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Staff and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-12-23 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Czechoslovak crisis, as it became known, started in January 1968, when Alexander Dubcek was elevated to the post of First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (CPCz), replacing moribund Antonin Novotny, who had served as First Secretary since 1957. Under Dubcek, the communist leadership embarked on a program of dramatic liberalization of the Czechoslovak political, economic, and social order, including the overhaul of the CPCz leadership, increased freedom of speech, surrender of authority to the Czech National Assembly by the Communist Party, real elections at local and national levels, and even the suggestion of legalizing non-communist political parties. All this alarmed Moscow and the leadership of the Warsaw Pact, but throughout the Prague Spring, Dubcek went out of his way to demonstrate his personal loyalty to Moscow and Prague's intention to remain firmly within the Warsaw Pact military alliance. How sincere he was in these remonstrations is difficult to say, but Dubcek and his allies clearly feared a repetition of the Hungarian uprising of 1956, brutally crushed by Soviet troops. These fears were mirrored in Washington and, to a certain extent, even in Moscow. The crisis lasted more than a year, with the first none months consisting of Czech reforms triggering Soviet statements of concern and eventually threats, buttressed by Warsaw Pact military buildups disguised as exercises. When the invasion occurred in the early morning hours of 21 August, the Czechoslovak leadership as not immediately removed, but remained largely intact through April 1969, when Dubcek was finally replaced as First Secretary by a more pro-Soviet Gustav Husak.
Author : Karen Dawisha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (222 download)
Download or read book Soviet Security and the Role of the Military written by Karen Dawisha and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jarom¡r Navr til
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789639116153
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Prague Spring 1968 written by Jarom¡r Navr til and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Maud Bracke
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789637326943
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Which Socialism, Whose D‚tente? written by Maud Bracke and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 1968-1969 Czechoslovak crisis was first and foremost a major crisis of European detente. While the Prague Spring was made possible by the immediate and unchecked consequences of early detente in Europe, its crushing sharply brought out the contradictions of detente as understood by the global Cold War protagonists. In a similar way as the Czecho-slovak crisis reflected the ambivalence at the heart of detente, the West European Communist Parties' responses to it revealed the ambivalence of detente as a context for radical social change, either in the East of the West. The scholarly literature on the PCI and PCF has, often in an unproblematic way, understood the shift from Cold War to detente on the European continent in the mid-1960s as a development essentially positive to these parties. The present study argues against this and demonstrates how the shift from the Cold War of the 1950s to detente in Europe reformulated the impasse of revolution or radical change in the West, rather than putting an end to it." Book jacket.
Author : David Francois
Publisher : Europe@war
ISBN 13 : 9781913336295
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Operation Danube written by David Francois and published by Europe@war. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 20 August 1968, hundreds of thousands of soldiers, dozens of thousands of tanks and armored vehicles, and hundreds of military aircraft of the Warsaw Pact armed forces invaded Czechoslovakia in an operation code-named Danube. It was the largest military undertaking in Europe since 1945. Starting with a description of the history of Czechoslovakia, especially after the communist takeover of power in 1948, this volume describes the birth and development of the Prague Spring in 1968 and an attempt to reform the communist system from within. It recounts the hostility this process encountered on the part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR/Soviet Union), and its allies within the Warsaw Pact, and provoked a split in the Kremlin about solutions for the resulting 'Czechoslovak problem'. The crisis that developed throughout the spring and summer of 1968 led to the military intervention. While paying special attention to the military and strategic aspects of the Czechoslovak crisis, this volume also provides a blow-by-blow account of its impacts upon the Czechoslovak armed forces and the Warsaw Pact. The subsequent military operation - codenamed Operation Danube - is described in all of its components, including the airborne and ground aspects, and the political operation that supported it. Within only 24 hours, the Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces secured the entire territory of Czechoslovakia, de-facto overrunning the local armed forces in the process. The Czechoslovak population organized non-violent resistance, thus highlighting the political aspects of the intervention. However, it was hopelessly out of condition to prevent the ultimate downfall of the so-called 'Prague Spring', and the related hopes. Nevertheless, the application of military power against a popularly-supported political reform marked a turning point in the Cold War, and forever changed the balance of power in Central Europe. Guiding the reader meticulously through the details of the forces involved, their organisation and equipment, Operation Danube offers a uniquely in-depth account of the invasion of Czechoslovakia and is profusely illustrated with more than 100 photos, maps, and exclusive colour artworks.
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Czechoslovakia Crisis, 1968 written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Czechoslovakia Crisis of 1968 was a watershed moment in world politics. The Soviet-led invasion was one of the more significant events in the decades long Cold War between the East and West. The occupation was the beginning of the end for the Czechoslovak reform movement known as the "Prague Spring." The reform movement had been brewing for years, fed by economic problems as well as growing demands from Communist intellectuals for more freedom and pluralism within a socialist system. But it really gathered steam at the beginning of 1968, when the Communist Party's Central Committee replaced its hard-line First Secretary Antonin Novotny with the moderate reformer Alexander Dubcek, who eventually sided more and more clearly with the forces for change. The documents in The Czechoslovakia Crisis, 1968: The State Department's Crisis Files were collected and collated from a variety of State Department sources and represent an administrative history of the crisis. This collection includes almost a day-by-day record of the events, including the U.S. and the West's response to the Soviet occupation and dismantling of the liberal reforms.
Author : Galia Golan
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Czechoslovak Reform Movement written by Galia Golan and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1971-11-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The `Prague Spring' was but the climax of a long, intensive struggle waged within the Czechoslovak party and society since 1956.
Author : Francis Tibor Miko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (241 download)
Download or read book East German Perceptio of the Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968 written by Francis Tibor Miko and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jakub Drábik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783838215549
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Operation Danube Reconsidered written by Jakub Drábik and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings the international context of the 1968 crisis in Czechoslovakia to the center of attention. It brought together experts from within as well as from without Central Europe to kindle an international discussion on the Prague spring, its origins, its unfolding, its aftermath, and, most importantly, the international context.
