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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Table of Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; PART I. INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The Prague Spring and the Soviet Invasion in Historical Perspective; PART II. CZECHOSLOVAKIA, THE SOVIET UNION, AND THE "PRAGUE SPRING"; Chapter 3. Reforms in the Communist Party: The Prague Spring and Apprehension about a Soviet Invasion; Chapter 4. Soviet Society in the 1960s; Chapter 5. Politburo Decision-Making on the Czechoslovak Crisis in 1968; Chapter 6. The KGB and the Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968: Preconditions for the Soviet Invasion and Occupation of Czechoslovakia.
- Chapter 7. The Moscow "Negotiations": "Normalizing Relations" between the Soviet Leadership and the Czechoslovak Delegation after the InvasionPART III. THE GREAT POWERS AND THE YEAR OF CRISIS IN 1968; Chapter 8. The Johnson Administration, the Vietnam War, and the American South's Response to the Vietnam War; Chapter 9. "No Action": The Johnson Administration and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968; Photospread; Chapter 10. Strategic Warning: The CIA and the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia.
- Chapter 11. Defense and Détente: Britain, the Soviet Union, and the 1968 Czech CrisisChapter 12. Paris and the Prague Spring; Chapter 13. France, Italy, the Western Communists, and the Prague Spring; PART IV. EUROPEAN NEIGHBORS DURING THE PRAGUE SPRING; Chapter 14. The USSR, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968; Chapter 15. Ulbricht, East Germany, and the Prague Spring; Chapter 16. Hungary and the Prague Spring; Chapter 17. Tito, the Bloc-Free Movement, and the Prague Spring; Chapter 18. Austria and the End of the Prague Spring: Neutrality in the Crucible?
- Appendix 1. "Counterrevolution: in PragueAppendix 2. "We Are Ready at Any Time . . .to Assist the Czechoslovak People Together with the Armies ... of the Warsaw Pact"; Appendix 3. "Secret" Memorandum: Eugene V. Rostow to Dean Rusk, 10 May 1968; Appendix 4. On the Results of the Warsaw Meeting of the Delegations of Communist Parties and Workers' Parties from Socialist Countries; Appendix 5. CC Urging the United States to Halt "Hostile U.S. Media Campaign" against the Soviet Union; Appendix 6. "Secret" Memorandum by Nathaniel Davis, "Czechoslovak Contingencies."
- Appendix 7. Memorandum from Ambassador McGhee to the Secretary of State, 21 August 1968Appendix 8. Svoboda about Dubcek: "If He Were to Resign from His Post, It Would Be Better for All of Us"; Appendix 9. "Secret" and "Top Secret" Secretary of Defense Staff Meetings, 1968; Appendix 10. "U.S. Propaganda Strengthening NATO"; Index; About the Contributors.
