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Eastern Europe in 1968

Responses to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact Invasion

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Editors:
  1. Kevin McDermott

    1. Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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  2. Matthew Stibbe

    1. Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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  • Evaluates the influence of the Prague Spring reforms in Czechoslovakia on all the countries of the former Soviet bloc

  • Utiilises a comparative approach, combining 'history from above' with 'history from below' methodologies

  • Analyses new material from state and secret police archives

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. The Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact Invasion Through the Soviet and East European Lens

    • Kevin McDermott, Matthew Stibbe
    Pages 1-22

  3. For a Civic Socialism and the Rule of Law: The Interplay of Jurisprudence, Public Opinion and Dissent in Czechoslovakia, 1960s–1980s

    • Kieran Williams, James Krapfl
    Pages 23-43

  4. The ‘Anti-Prague Spring’: Neo-Stalinist and Ultra-Leftist Extremism in Czechoslovakia, 1968–70

    • Kevin McDermott, Vítězslav Sommer
    Pages 45-69

  5. The Impact of the Prague Spring on the USSR

    • Zbigniew Wojnowski
    Pages 71-96

  6. Ideological Offensive: The East German Leadership, the Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of August 1968

    • Matthew Stibbe
    Pages 97-123

  7. ‘To Hell with Sovereignty!’: Poland and the Prague Spring

    • Tony Kemp-Welch
    Pages 125-145

  8. Hungary 1968: Reform and the Challenge of the Prague Spring

    • Csaba Békés
    Pages 147-167

  9. 1968: A Bulgarian Perspective

    • Jordan Baev
    Pages 169-191

  10. Ceauşescu’s Finest Hour? Memorialising Romanian Responses to the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

    • Calin Goina
    Pages 193-213

  11. The ‘June Events’: The 1968 Student Protests in Yugoslavia

    • Kenneth Morrison
    Pages 215-234

  12. 1968: The Prague Spring and the Albanian ‘Castle’

    • Ana Lalaj
    Pages 235-255

  13. Echoes of the Prague Spring in the Soviet Baltic Republics

    • Irēna Saleniece, Iveta Šķiņķe
    Pages 257-277

  14. ‘Down with Revisionism and Irredentism’: Soviet Moldavia and the Prague Spring, 1968–72

    • Igor Caşu
    Pages 279-298

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 299-311
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About this book

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. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Kevin McDermott, Matthew Stibbe

About the editors

Kevin McDermott is Professor of Modern East European History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Matthew Stibbe is Professor of Modern European History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.


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