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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.