
Operation Danube Reconsidered
The International Aspects of the Czechoslovak 1968 Crisis
Jakub Drábik(Editor)
ibidem (Publisher)
Published on 21. April 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-3-8382-1554-9 (ISBN)
Description
At 11 o´clock in the evening of 20th August 1968, the armies of four Warsaw Pact countries, the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary, crossed the borders of Czechoslovakia, starting the "Operation Danube". Literally overnight the Czechoslovak experiment with Alexander Dubcek´s liberalization reforms was transformed from living reality into history. Although the Soviet Union's action successfully halted the pace of reform in Czechoslovakia, it had unintended consequences for both the unity of the communist bloc and the establishment of the new Soviet foreign doctrine. This book brings the international context of the 1968 crisis in Czechoslovakia to the center of attention. It brought together experts from within as well as from without Central Europe with the hope of igniting, or, perhaps better, re-igniting an international discussion on the Prague spring, its origins, its unfolding, its aftermath, and, most importantly, the international context.
The volume's contributors are: Ljubodarg Dimic, Jakub Drábik, Mihail Gruev, Slavomír Michálek, Miklós Mitrovits, Jackques Rupnik, Alexander Stykalin, Miroslaw Szumilo, Michal Stefanský, and Virgiliu Tarau
Reviews / Votes
"The publication is a contribution to Czechoslovak history in 1968 and its deep international context, revealing the character of the Soviet bloc and the essence of relations between its countries, and the Western and Eastern bloc, too. It is very valuable for both professional historians and for general readers."-Miroslav Lysý, Comenius University Bratislava "The aim of each article in this collection is to bring new knowledge, interpretations, and evaluation of the current state of research. And the authors succeed in that goal admirably."-Norbert Kmet, Institute of Political Science of the Slovak Academy of SciencesMore details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Hannover
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
226 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8382-1554-9 (9783838215549)
Schweitzer Classification
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04/2021
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E-Book
04/2021
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Persons
Editor
Dr. Jakub Drabik (born 1986) is a historian mainly interested in comparative fascism studies but covering a broad range of topics from 20th-century history in his research and teaching. He completed his doctorate at Charles University in Prague in 2014 and, since 2016, is working at the Institute of History at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and teaching at the Masaryk University in Brno. His previous books include Fasista [A Fascist] (Academia, 2017) and Fasizmus [Fascism] (Premedia, 2019).
Contributions
ISNI: 0000 0001 0981 8907
Foreword