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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 is included.
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 is included.
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Table of contents
- The Russian āPrague SpringāPrologue to the English Edition
- Chapter OneWe Came to Carry Out a Mission
- Chapter TwoWe Saved the World froma Third World War
- Chapter ThreeOf Course It Makes One Feel Sorry
- Chapter FourWe Were Uninvited Guests
- Chapter FiveUnrest in the Backwoods
- Chapter SixThe Events in Czechoslovakia and theSoviet Embassy in Prague in 1967ā1968
- Chapter SevenThe KGB and theCzechoslovak Crisis of 1968
- Chapter EightThe Fate of Some Russian Journalistsin August 1968
- Chapter Nineā1968 Changed Usā
- Chapter TenGorbachevās People fromDejvice
- Chapter ElevenāI Tried to Talk to Themā
- Chapter TwelveDisgrace (ŠŠŠŠŠ )
- Chapter ThirteenThatās When Our Illusions WereDispelled Once and for All
- Chapter FourteenA Few Minutes of Freedom
- Chapter FifteenDiary of Elvira Filipovich (1967ā1971)
- Index
- About the Contributors