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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299799703321

Titolo

Eastern Europe in 1968 : Responses to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact Invasion / / edited by Kevin McDermott, Matthew Stibbe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-77069-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 pages)

Disciplina

940.09717

Soggetti

Russia—History

Europe, Eastern—History

Europe—History—1492-

World politics

World War, 1939-1945

History, Modern

Russian, Soviet, and East European History

History of Modern Europe

Political History

History of World War II and the Holocaust

Modern History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. The Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact Invasion Through the Soviet and East European Lens; Kevin McDermott and Matthew Stibbe -- 2. For a Civic Socialism and the Rule of Law: The Interplay of Jurisprudence, Public Opinion and Dissent in Czechoslovakia, 1960s-1980s; Kieran Williams and James Krapfl -- 3. The 'Anti-Prague Spring': Neo-Stalinist and Ultra-Leftist Extremism in Czechoslovakia, 1968-70; Kevin McDermott and Vítězslav Sommer -- 4. The Impact of the Prague Spring on the USSR; Zbigniew Wojnowski -- 5.Ideological Offensive: The East German Leadership, the Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of August 1968; Matthew Stibbe -- 6. 'To Hell with Sovereignty!': Poland and the Prague Spring; Tony Kemp-Welch -- 7. Hungary 1968: Reform and the Challenge of the Prague Spring; Csaba



Békés -- 8. 1968: A Bulgarian Perspective; Jordan Baev -- 9. Ceauşescu's Finest Hour? Memorialising Romanian Responses to the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia; Calin Goina -- 10. The 'June Events': The 1968 Student Protests in Yugoslavia; Kenneth Morrison -- 11. 1968: The Prague Spring and the Albanian 'Castle'; Ana Lalaj -- 12. Echoes of the Prague Spring in the Soviet Baltic Republics; Irēna Saleniece and Iveta Šķiņķe -- 13. 'Down with Revisionism and Irredentism': The Impact of the Prague Spring on Soviet Moldavia; Igor Caşu -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of thirteen essays examines reactions in Eastern Europe to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Countries covered include the Soviet Union and specific Soviet republics (Ukraine, Moldavia, the Baltic States), together with two chapters on Czechoslovakia and one each on East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia and Albania. The individual contributions explain why most of these communist regimes opposed Alexander Dubček’s reforms and supported the Soviet-led military intervention in August 1968, and why some stood apart. They also explore public reactions in Eastern Europe to the events of 1968, including instances of popular opposition to the crushing of the Prague Spring, expressions of loyalty to Soviet-style socialism, and cases of indifference or uncertainty. Among the many complex legacies of the East European ‘1968’ was the development of new ways of thinking about regional identity, state borders, de-Stalinisation and the burdens of the past. .