{"id":3693,"date":"2018-08-24T13:38:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T13:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:07","slug":"prague-spring-50-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2018\/08\/24\/prague-spring-50-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Prague Spring &#8211; 50 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union.\u00a0In August 1968 tanks were sent in to crush it.<br \/>\nHere are some resources to find out more:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Newspaper coverage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/20\/world\/europe\/prague-spring-communism.html\">New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/aug\/20\/russian-presence-divides-czechs-50-years-after-prague-spring\">Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/photo\/2018\/08\/photos-50-years-since-a-soviet-invasion-ended-the-prague-spring\/567916\/\">Atlantic -photo essay<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/crushing-of-prague-spring-1968\/29420107.html\">Radio Free Europe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Academic analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usd.cas.cz\/aktuality\/the-prague-spring-50-years-after\/?l=en\">Prague Spring 50 Years After<\/a>: Great Crises of Communist R\u00e9gimes in Central Europe in a Transnational Perspective- International Conference- papers available via YouTube channel<br \/>\n\u2022USD Institute International History also has some themed pages with chronologies and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.68.usd.cas.cz\/cz\/chronologie.html\">documents in Czech<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u2022University of Nebraska Lincoln held a Prague spring at 50 conference . some of the presentations are on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UChCDrSRMfVwJeRHgjT8JwuA\">YouTube channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Documents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dodis.ch\/T941\">Crisis in Czechoslovakia: DODIS &#8211;\u00a0<\/a>Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland. <a href=\"https:\/\/dodis.ch\/dds\/1060\">1848-1975<\/a> materials from the Swiss federal Archives.<\/li>\n<li>EurDocs has links to primary source materials by and covering Czechoslovakia it includes some <a href=\"https:\/\/eudocs.lib.byu.edu\/index.php\/Czechoslovakia_1918-1993\">Czech language materials<\/a> including government and resistance form the Cold War period which might be worth exploring.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/subject\/czech\/index.htm\">Marxist Internet Archive <\/a>has accounts from dissidents. and contemporary analyses<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scalar.usc.edu\/works\/prague-spring-archive\/index\">Prague Spring Archive project<\/a>\u2014a collaboration between the University of Texas at Austin and the Center for Russian East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), using materials from the<\/li>\n<li>Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library gives the perspective of the Americans on events. It includes timelines and documents.<\/li>\n<li>Cold War International History Project Wilson Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilsoncenter.org\/blog-post\/inching-and-out-the-prague-spring\">has some analysis<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The digital archive also has<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org\/collection\/77\/soviet-invasion-of-czechoslovakia\"> primary source materials on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslavakia <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union.\u00a0In August 1968 tanks were sent in to crush it. 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