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The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia In 1968
The Russian Perspective
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2019
Summary
The edited collection is the first attempt to take a more coherent look at the Russian perception of the Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. The publication is therefore a collection of interviews, memoirs and academic studies focusing on Russian soldiers, dissidents and journalists involved in and affected by the Soviet invasion.
The book begins with a focus on the Soviet soldiers who came to Czechoslovakia. It depicts their inner world and the mighty machinery of the Soviet propaganda to which they were exposed.
The Archive supplement offers a fresh look at the role of KGB and the Soviet embassy in the Czechoslovak events of August 1968 by Russian historians Nikita Petrov and Olga Pavlenko.
The second part presents the Soviet journalists living in Prague in 1968 who supported the Prague Spring and subsequently paid for their stance by being deported and losing their job.
The last part of the book focuses on the kinship that the Soviet liberal intelligentsia and dissident movement, which emerged while Leonid Brezhnev was tightening the screws in the USSR in late 1960s, felt toward events in Prague, which for them represented one of the last hopes for change. It begins with the study of the Czech researcher Tomas Glanc exploring the different reactions on Prague Spring and August 1968 invasion among the Soviet inteligentsia. Interviews with former Soviet dissidents Lyudmila Alexeeva and Natalia Gorbanevskaya follow. As a supplement, the diary of the ordinary Soviet citizen Elvira Filipovich is included.
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Copyright year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-0292-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-0293-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
288
Product type
Edited Book
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The Russian “Prague Spring”Prologue to the English Edition No access
Chapter OneWe Came to Carry Out a Mission No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter TwoWe Saved the World froma Third World War No access Pages 11 - 30
Chapter ThreeOf Course It Makes One Feel Sorry No access Pages 31 - 44
Chapter FourWe Were Uninvited Guests No access Pages 45 - 60
Chapter FiveUnrest in the Backwoods No access Pages 61 - 80
Chapter SixThe Events in Czechoslovakia and theSoviet Embassy in Prague in 1967–1968 No access Pages 81 - 124
Chapter SevenThe KGB and theCzechoslovak Crisis of 1968 No access Pages 125 - 148
Chapter EightThe Fate of Some Russian Journalistsin August 1968 No access Pages 149 - 158
Chapter Nine“1968 Changed Us” No access Pages 159 - 168
Chapter TenGorbachev’s People fromDejvice No access Pages 169 - 174
Chapter Eleven“I Tried to Talk to Them” No access Pages 175 - 182
Chapter TwelveDisgrace (ПОЗОР) No access Pages 183 - 228
Chapter ThirteenThat’s When Our Illusions WereDispelled Once and for All No access Pages 229 - 242
Chapter FourteenA Few Minutes of Freedom No access Pages 243 - 262
Chapter FifteenDiary of Elvira Filipovich (1967–1971) No access Pages 263 - 278
