Czechoslovakia's lost fight for freedom, 1967-1969 : an American embassy perspective

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Czechoslovakia's lost fight for freedom, 1967-1969 : an American embassy perspective

Kenneth N. Skoug, Jr

Praeger, 1999

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Czechoslovakia's lost fight for freedom, 1967-1969

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Bibliography: p. [251]-253

Includes index

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This fascinating account, by a Czech-speaking American diplomat who lived in Czechoslovakia from 1967-1969, describes the collapse of a repressive Communist regime, the subsequent unprecedented explosion of popular freedom, the surprise Soviet occupation, and the spirited passive resistance of the population until the gradual strangulation of the Prague Spring. Drawing on his own journal, recent memoirs, and documentary materials in the National Archives, the author shows how American diplomats and senior U.S. officials analyzed and reacted to ongoing events. He explains how reform leader Alexander Dubcek became wedged between enthusiastic popular support and the objections of ultra-orthodox Soviet leaders. Skoug's economic and commercial responsibilities gave him considerable access to Czechoslovak officials even in the Novotny period, and he was an eyewitness to the invasion and many other crucial events of the period, including the great patriotic demonstration of March 1969 which the Soviet Union exploited to force Dubcek's resignation. Despite overt Soviet pressure, neither Prague nor Washington anticipated intervention. The Johnson Administration, courting Moscow for help on Vietnam, displayed calculated indifference to the dispute and reacted tepidly to developments. Left alone, the Czechoslovak population met the invader with militant, if passive, resistance, but the Dubcek leadership capitulated to Soviet demands and acquiesced in an occupation that gradually betrayed all of the gains achieved. Subsequent reluctance by Washington to criticize Moscow helped the Soviet Union cut its diplomatic losses. On the other hand, the Czechoslavak crisis may have helped to persuade Gorbachev to allow Eastern Europe to resolve its own affairs in 1989.

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Introduction The Old Order at Bay, 1967 The "New Mechanism" and the Old Masters In Dubious Battle The Crisis in the Communist Party Spring with a Human Face, 1968 A Pendulum Swinging Outward Reform or Revolution? Big Brother Knows Best One Week in August The Russians Are Coming. The Russians Are Here! A Tale of Two Cities Capitulation in the Kremlin The Descent to Normality, 1968-1969 No Way Out The Road to Prague Leads through Bratislava Another Kind of Spring Epilogue Appendix Selected Bibliography Index

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