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).