Sources for 1968 in Czechoslovakia:

Documents:

  1. "Tremors of Change," Time Magazine (March 29, 1968)
  2. "Alexander Dubcek: Into Unexplored Terrain," Time Magazine Cover Story (April 5, 1968)
  3. Report to Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party on Observations by Ukrainian Journalists in the CSSR (May 30, 1968), CWIHP
  4. "Showdown in Eastern Europe," Time Magazine (July 26, 1968)
  5. Last Conversation between Dubcek and Brezhnev before the Invasion, August 1968 (Radio Praha)
  6. "Leonid Brezhnev's Telephone Conversation with Alexander Dubček, August 13, 1968," Transcript
  7. Letter from the Central Committees of the Bulgarian, East German, Hungarian, Polish, and Soviet Communist Parties regarding the Warsaw Pact intervention in Czechoslovakia (August 21, 1968), CWIHP
  8. "Invasion," Time Magazine Cover Story (August 30, 1968)
  9. "The Brezhnev Doctrine" (September 25, 1968)
  10. "Communism: A House Divided, A Faith Fragmented," Time Magazine (June 13, 1969)
  11. "The Czech Stage: Freedom's Last Barricade," Time Magazine (July 25, 1969)
  12. "Charter 77 Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly signed by the three spokespersons (Jan Patočka, Jiří Hájek, Václav Havel)," January 5, 1977
  13. "Prague 1968: A Time of Expectations," Interviews, Radio Praha
    (August 20, 2007)
  14. "August 21, 1968: The Hopes of a Generation Crushed," Interviews, Radio Praha (August 21, 2007)
  15. "The Invasion of Czechoslovakia," Link Collection of primary sources (European Navigator)

 

Images:

  1. Prague Spring, Archive of the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague
  2. Soviet Invasion, Archive of the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague
  3. Protest Poster and Graffiti, Archive of the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague
  4. Jan Palach, Archive of the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague
  5. Jessica Dawson, "Prague 1968: A Timeless Evocation of Tragedy," in: Washington Post (December 19, 2008)

 

Videos Online:

  1. Czechoslovakia and the Prague Spring of 1968:


     

  2. Soviet Occupation of Czechoslovakia: 1, 2

 

Related Movies:

  1. Jan Nemec, "Oratorio for Prague" (1968)
  2. Philip Kaufman, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” (1988)
  3. "DVD brings August 1968 back," in: The Slovak Spectator (August 25, 2008)

 

Related Websites:

  1. "The Prague Spring 1968," Online Exhibition and Database, Archive of the Institute for Contemporary History, Prague (Czech)
  2. Collection, "Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia," Virtual Archive, Cold War International History Project (CWIHP)
  3. "The short Spring of Prague and Warsaw," Media '68-Project
  4. Document Collection, "Charter 77 After 30 Years" ed. by Vilém Prečan, Svetlana Savranskaya and Thomas Blanton (National Security Archive, 2007)
  5. "The Velvet Revolution Declassified" (National Security Archive)
  6. Barbara Tóth, “A 68er from former Czechoslovakia and a 68er from Germany are two completely different identities,” Kontakt Report (February 2008)
  7. "Czechoslovakia in 1968: An Invasion Remembered," Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
  8. 18th Prague Writers' Festival, "1968: Laughter and Forgetting"

 

Related Articles:

  1. Karel Sieber and Vojtech Mastny, ed., "1968: The Fraternal Invasion," in: Oral History Interviews on Czechoslovakia's Security Relations during the Cold War (PHP Archives, ETH Zurich, 2005)
  2. Karel Sieber and Vojtech Mastny, ed., "After 1968," in: Oral History Interviews on Czechoslovakia's Security Relations during the Cold War (PHP Archives, ETH Zurich, 2005)
  3. Jirí Gruša, “A 68er from former Czechoslovakia and a 68er from Germany are two completely different identities,” in: Kontakt (May 2006)
  4. Neal Ascherson, "When hope faded in the streets of the East," The Observer (January 20, 2008)
  5. Petruška Šustrová, "Lines of Tanks in Prague," in: Goethe-Institut, Dossier 1968
  6. Nicholas Kulish, "Trumping the Unbearable Darkness of History," in: New York Times (March 30, 2008)
  7. "Writers at Prague Festival remember May 1968," in: AFP (June 6, 2008)
  8. "Over 100 Czechs killed after country's Soviet invasion in 1968," in: Ceske Noviny (June 09, 2008)
  9. Jan Puhl, "The Tragic Failure of the Prague Spring," in: Spiegel Online (July 4, 2008)
  10. Uwe Klussmann, "Newly Discovered Documents Show Brezhnev Hesitated," in: Spiegel Online (July 4, 2008)
  11. Adam Michnik, "Rattling the Kremlin's Cage: 40 Years On," in: Guardian (August 15, 2008)
  12. Helen Womack and Kate Connolly, "'They threw bricks at us. I knew then that they didn't see us as liberators'," in: The Observer (August 17, 2008)
  13. Oldrich Tuma, "The Prague Spring: Then and Now, 40 Years Later," Auslandsinformationen, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (August 18, 2008)
  14. Sylvia Poggioli, "Prague Prague Spring: An Exercise in Democracy," in: NPR (August 21, 2008)
  15. Sylvia Poggioli, "Soviets Attacked Czechs' 'Virus Of Freedom' In '68," in: NPR (August 21, 2008)
  16. Sylvia Poggioli, "Prague Spring Ignored In Post-Communist Society," in: All Things Considered, NPR (August 22, 2008)
  17. Petr Pithart, "Ten Reflections on '68," in: "European Protest Movements Since 1945," Summer School 2008 Proceedings, August 2008
  18. Michael Werbowski, "Prague: Then and Now," in: Ohmynews (September 1, 2008)