1998 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Prague 1968: Spring and Fall
Published in:
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire
Uncannily repeating the political pattern of the decade of the 1950s, the 1960s and early 1970s witnessed first a climate shift of ‘winter into spring’, as de-Stalinisation was once again pursued by the Khrushchev leadership, then a familiar crisis of runaway de-Stalinisation, on this occasion over Czechoslovakia, and finally a military-imposed political relapse into an era of reactive neo-Stalinisation.