LEADER 02477oam 2200541 c 450 001 9910954754603321 005 20251202090341.0 010 $a9783838271262 010 $a3838271262 024 3 $a9783838271262 035 $a(CKB)5120000000121310 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5552980 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5782671 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5782671 035 $a(OCoLC)1109774856 035 $a(Perlego)773354 035 $a(ibidem)9783838271262 035 $a(EXLCZ)995120000000121310 100 $a20251202d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAlexander Dub?ek Unknown (1921?1992) $eThe Life of a Slovak Hero /$fJosette Baer Hill, Stanislav Sikora 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aHannover$cibidem$d2018 215 $a1 online resource (299 pages) $cillustrations 311 08$a9783838211268 311 08$a383821126X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 253-271) and index. 330 $aAlexander Dub?ek is well-known, so one might think; nothing new can be written about him. Is this true? Dub?ek is the symbol of the Czechoslovak attempt to reform communism that gained worldwide admiration in 1968. The invasion of Warsaw Pact troops in the night of August 21, 1968 set a brutal end to the Prague Spring. Josette Baer?s new biography focuses on Dub?ek?s early years, his childhood in Soviet Kirghizia, his participation in the Slovak National Uprising in 1944 against Nazi Germany and the Slovak clerical-fascist government, and his career in the Slovak Communist Party in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It offers new insights into the political thought of the father of ?Socialism with a Human Face?, based on archive material available to the Western reader for the first time. Who was Alexander Dub?ek?a naïve apparatchik, an independent thinker, a courageous liberator, or a political dreamer? 606 $aBiografie 606 $aPolitik 606 $aTschecheslowakei 615 4$aBiografie 615 4$aPolitik 615 4$aTschecheslowakei 676 $a943.7042092 700 $aBaer Hill$b Josette$4aut$01836382 702 $aSikora$b Stanislav$4aui 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910954754603321 996 $aAlexander Dub?ek Unknown (1921?1992)$94453361 997 $aUNINA