Table of Contents

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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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.

About the Author

KENNETH N. SKOUG, JR. was a member of the Foreign Service of the United States from 1957-1990, retiring with the rank of Minister Counselor. He served in Germany, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, Venezuela (twice) and four times in the U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. He received Presidential and meritorious service awards in 1988 and 1991 and the Orden del Libertador from the President of Venezuela in 1990. His other publications include The United States and Cuba under Reagan and Shultz: A Foreign Service Officer Reports (Greenwood, 1996).