Czechoslovakia's Interrupted Revolution / Harold Gordon Skilling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skilling, H. Gordon (Harold Gordon), 1912-2001, author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto ; 1600

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Czechoslovakia--Politics and government--1968-1989.

Czechoslovakia.

Czechoslovakia--History--Intervention, 1968.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (944 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For about eight months in 1968 Czechoslovakia underwent rapid and radical changes that were unparalleled in the history of communist reform; in the eight months that followed, those changes were dramatically reversed. H. Gordon Skilling provides a comprehensive analysis of the events of 1968, assessing their significance both for Czechoslovakia and for communism generally. The author's account is based on all available written sources, including unpublished Communist Party documents and interviews conducted in Czechoslovakia in 1967, 1968, and 1969. He examines the historical background, the main reforms and political forces of 1968, international reactions, the Soviet intervention, and the experiment's collapse, concluding with his reasons for regarding the events of the Prague spring as a movement of revolutionary proportions.The author's account is based on all available written sources, including unpublished Communist Party documents and interviews conducted in Czechoslovakia in 1967, 1968, 1969. He examines the historical background, the main reforms and political forces on 1968, international reactions, the Soviet intervention, and the experiment's collapse, concluding with his reasons for regarding the events of the Prague spring as a movement of revolutionary proportions.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

PART ONE. THE HISTORICAL SETTING

PART TWO. STALINISM IN DECLINE

PART THREE. THE POLITICS OF CHANGE

PART FOUR. THE NEW MODEL OF SOCIALISM

PART FIVE. CONTENDING POLITICAL AND SOCIAL FORCES

PART SIX. THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT

EPILOGUE. Dubček's Decline and Fall

CONCLUSION. Reform, Revolution, or Counterrevolution?

APPENDICES

A BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE

INDEX

Backmatter

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 891-898.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780691617008

0691617007

9780691644189

0691644187

9781400871155

1400871158

OCLC:

933516389