H. Gordon Skilling

Year of Publication: 1989

Skilling, Gordon, Samizdat and an Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1989, pp. 293

Year of Publication: 1976

Skilling, Gordon, Czechoslovakia’s Interrupted Revolution, Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1976, pp. 924

Especially chapters 21-22 (pp. 659-758). Charts the background to and evolution of the Prague Spring, international reactions to it and mounting Soviet and Warsaw Pact pressure, before outlining the August 1968 invasion and popular and official unarmed resistance to it. Skilling also discusses reasons for the gradual end to resistance and acceptance of the replacement of Dubcek by Husak.

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H. Gordon Skilling

Year of Publication: 1989

Year of Publication: 1976

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