For weeks Alexander Dubček has been the object of a secret struggle within the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia. The ultraconservative faction, led by Deputy Party Chief Lubomir Strougal, has ...

SINCE the party cannot change the people,” Alexander Dubček once said, “it must itself change.” One year ago this week, Dubček’s historic attempt to guide Czechoslovakia’s Communist ...

What would later become known as the Prague Spring began with the ascension, on this day in 1968, of the reformist Alexander Dubček to the post of first secretary of the Communist Party of ...

Mr. Gustav Husak, the tough Slovak leader, who urged compromise with the Kremlin, replaced reformist champion Mr. Alexander Dubcek as Czechoslovakia’s Communist leader last night [April 17] and ...

Peter Canby writes about rarely seen photographs that capture the occupation of Czechoslovakia that ended the Prague Spring, which are on view at the Bohemian National Hall in New York.