The tremors emanating from Czechoslovakia’s extraordinary wave of reform not only shook the country itself but spread through all of Eastern Europe. In Prague, Party Boss Alexander Dubcek, chief ...

Alarmed by KGB feeds from Prague, Brezhnev ordered Warsaw Pact troops to crush Dubcek's ambitions, and this had repercussions—imagine!—in Link House. The next day, All India Radio broadcast a ...

The number of occupying troops would total more than 500,000, and the invasion would put an end to the dream of a European socialism based on freedom — above all freedom of expression. When he took ...

Brezhnev and the other party bosses had summoned Czechoslovak Party Leader Alexander Dubček to Warsaw to explain his policies, but Dubcek politely declined. Instead, he offered to meet separately ...

1968 - Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev orders Russian-led Warsaw Pack troops into Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring, a period of liberalisation under reform-minded leader Alexander Dubcek.

The thaws of spring are never followed by summer, but always by a political winter: Brezhnev replaced Khrushchev, Husák came after Dubcek. Excepting the collapse of Communist rule in the Soviet Union ...

Dubcek's dreams were shattered by Brezhnev and his Warsaw Pact allies in August 1968. But here, in the form and substance of Gorbachev, was a Soviet leader who seemed ready and able to carry that ...

POSTMARK by Katharine Gratwick Baker JOHN and I went out to a very elegant dinner party Tuesday night, August 20, in honor of a colleague from a friendly embassy in Prague who was ending his ...

Russia's current repression of speech against the invasion of Ukraine is "amongst the worst in Russian history," scholars say. There have been some pretty bad ones.