The book presents a detailed biography of Alexander Dub?ek, the icon of the "Czecho-Slovak Spring" in 1968. It aims to explain his decisions and intellectual development in the context of the turbulent development of the 20th century Central Europe. Dub?k's importance went beyond Czechoslovak borders. His vision of the "socialism with the human face" secured him worldwide fame. At the end of the 1960s, he became a global symbol of the changes desired on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The short time of his leadership brought him and his country at the forefront of the global politics. The invasion of the Warsaw Pact into Czechoslovakia ended his political career and brought him 20 years of isolation. However, Dub?k's popularity and infl uence in the European Left remained unchanged.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Information
- Copyrights
- Contents
- Foreword
- Alexander Dubček, Past and Present
- Where the Promised Land Is?
- Interhelpo
- Anti-Nazi Resistance
- From Worker to Professional Politician
- First Political Steps
- The First Secretary of the ÚV KSS
- The Early Spring and Problems of the Slovak Economy
- The Early Spring and Cultural Elites
- Socialism with a Human Face
- The US and the West before August 1968
- The Invasion and the Platonic Sympathy of the White House
- The Moscow Protocol
- At the Beginning of Normalisation
- Ambassador to Ankara
- Slovak Society during Normalisation
- Normalisation Did Not Silence Dubček
- Alexander Dubček or Václav Havel?
- Route to Social Democracy
- The Chairman of the Federal Parliament
- Alexander Dubček in Historiography
- Conclusion
- Selected Bibliography
- About the Autors
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