The mounting economic problems of the USSR, particularly as the rate of world ... The coming to power of Alexander Dubcek in Czechoslovakia in January 1968, the so-called “Prague Spring ...

In August of that year, Russian tanks rolled into Prague – along ... The hero of the hour is Alexander Dubcek, the country's new president who, as he rose through the ranks of the Communist ...

Now, in the winter of its agony, Dubcek has increasingly become the ... to break off Slovakia and incorporate it into the Soviet Union, opposed the federal system. They changed their minds when ...

MOSCOW, Aug. 21, 1968 (UPI) - The overthrow of the Czechoslovak regime of Alexander Dubcek and its replacement ... President Johnson today called on the Soviet Union and its Communist allies ...

in Russian,”recounted Cecile Koiova in a Radio ... The Czech leadership’s leading reformers – Dubcek and premier Oldrich Cernik along with Jozef Smrkovsky and Frantisek Kriegel – were ...

A new energy flowed in the Czechoslovakia after Alexander Dubcek became its leader in ... the nation's communist framework. The Soviet Union loathed the plan and sought to suppress it with force.

Novotny asked the Soviet leader, Brezhnev, for help to crackdown on the protests, but Brezhnev refused and in early 1968, Novotny was replaced as Communist Party Secretary by Alexander Dubcek.

Novotny asked the Soviet leader, Brezhnev, for help to crackdown on the protests, but Brezhnev refused, and in early 1968 Novotny was replaced as Communist Party Secretary by Alexander Dubcek.