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The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 - The Russian Perspective (Hardcover)
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The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 - The Russian Perspective (Hardcover)
Series: The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
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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 - a Russian biologist married to a Czech who witnessed
the August 1968 in Moscow - is included.
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