Brezhnev, who had thrown Dubcek and the rest of the Czech government into prison, quickly brought the officials to Moscow for negotiations. When the Soviet Union finally came apart more than 20 ...

The rapid development of the mass movement in Czechoslovakia terrified Brezhnev and the Moscow bureaucracy. Dubcek's reforms were timid (incidentally it later emerged that Dubcek himself was a ...

WILLIAMS: When Brezhnev would be haranguing Dubcek, over and over it came back to itemizing all the things that were in that week's Czech and Slovak newspapers that offended him and alarmed him.

In January 1968, Alexander Dubcek (center) took leadership of Czechoslovakia's Communist Party. The grinning Slovak announced plans to ease censorship and restrict the powers of the hated secret ...

Czechoslovakia and Dubcek had fallen foul of USSR leader Leonid Brezhnev’s eponymous doctrine, espoused retroactively in justification the month after Warsaw Pact troops took to Prague’s ...

Leonid Brezhnev screwed me over twice,” bemoans Pavel Kamenicky. In 1968 Alexander Dubcek was attempting to reform communism in Czechoslovakia in what had become known as the Prague Spring.But ...

CZECHOSLOVAKIA, the little country that is trying the difficult and perhaps impossible task of combining Communism with freedom, is continuing to stir up resentment and alarm in its Communist ...

Alexander Dubcek’s reforms in Czechoslovakia in 1968 were ultimately adopted by the USSR, ... Brezhnev’s crude effort to restore comradely love, alas, failed.

Spring has come a little late for Alexander Dubcek. Twenty-one years late and in the dead of a Prague winter, to be precise. But the mere tardiness of the season of renewal cannot diminish the ...