The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
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 SovietCommunist Party, Leonid Brezhnev, wa...
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| Language: | English |
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Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
2009
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| Summary: | 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 SovietCommunist Party, Leonid Brezhnev, was initially reluctant to use military force and tried to pressure his counterpart in Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubcek, to crack down. But during the summer of 1968, after several months of careful deliberations, the Soviet Politburo finally decide that military force was the only option left. A larg. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (531 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780739143063 0739143069 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
