Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev tried to curtail the Prague Spring’s momentum with a series of talks, meeting directly with Dubcek in late July in the small border town of Cierna nad Tisou.

During Czechoslovakia’s “springtime of freedom,” First Party Secretary Alexander Dubcek was the symbol ... coordinated by a federal government in Prague that will be administered by a ...

A new energy flowed in the Czechoslovakia after Alexander Dubcek became its leader in ... in troops to end that period now known as the Prague Spring. In Waves, the Czech Republic's submission ...

For those few months of 1968, however, the Prague spring air was filled with hope ... The hero of the hour is Alexander Dubcek, the country's new president who, as he rose through the ranks ...