The Prague Spring and Its Aftermath - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prague Spring and Its Aftermath write by Kieran Williams. This book was released on 1997-09-08. The Prague Spring and Its Aftermath available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Prague Spring 1968
The Prague Spring 1968 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prague Spring 1968 write by Jarom¡r Navr til. This book was released on 1998-01-01. The Prague Spring 1968 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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
The Greengrocer and His TV
The Greengrocer and His TV - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Greengrocer and His TV write by Paulina Bren. This book was released on 2011-08-15. The Greengrocer and His TV available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Intellectual Origins of the Prague Spring
The Intellectual Origins of the Prague Spring - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Intellectual Origins of the Prague Spring write by Vladimir V. Kusin. This book was released on 2002-07-18. The Intellectual Origins of the Prague Spring available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A survey of the development of reformist ideas among the Czech intelligentsia after 1956.
Breaking Down Bipolarity
Breaking Down Bipolarity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Breaking Down Bipolarity write by Martin Previšić. This book was released on 2021-10-04. Breaking Down Bipolarity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
