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The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968

The Russian Perspective
The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series

von: Josef Pazderka, Daniel Povolný, Leonid Shinkarev, Olga Pavlenko, Nikita Petrov, Dmitry Beloshevsky, Petr Pithart, Tomás Glanc, Elvira Filipovich
42,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	23.07.2019
ISBN/EAN:	9781793602930
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	304

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Titelbeschreibung

The edited collection is the first attempt to take a more coherent look at the Russian perception of the Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. The publication is therefore a collection of interviews, memoirs and academic studies focusing on Russian soldiers, dissidents and journalists involved in and affected by the Soviet invasion. 
The book begins with a focus on the Soviet soldiers who came to Czechoslovakia. It depicts their inner world and the mighty machinery of the Soviet propaganda to which they were exposed. 
The Archive supplement offers a fresh look at the role of KGB and the Soviet embassy in the Czechoslovak events of August 1968 by Russian historians Nikita Petrov and Olga Pavlenko.
The second part presents the Soviet journalists living in Prague in 1968 who supported the Prague Spring and subsequently paid for their stance by being deported and losing their job. 
The last part of the book focuses on the kinship that the Soviet liberal intelligentsia and dissident movement, which emerged while Leonid Brezhnev was tightening the screws in the USSR in late 1960s, felt toward events in Prague, which for them represented one of the last hopes for change. It begins with the study of the Czech researcher Tomas Glanc exploring the different reactions on Prague Spring and August 1968 invasion among the Soviet inteligentsia. Interviews with former Soviet dissidents Lyudmila Alexeeva and Natalia Gorbanevskaya follow. As a supplement, the diary of the ordinary Soviet citizen Elvira Filipovich is included.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

This collection of interviews, diaries, and scholarly analyses is the first comprehensive look at Russian sentiments in the wake of the Warsaw Pact occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. It features the reflections of Russian soldiers, dissidents, and journalists.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: 
The Russian ‘Prague Spring’
 by Josef Pazderka Chapter 1: 
We Came to Carry Out a Mission: Soviet Soldiers and Their Views of the Invasion
 by Daniel Povolný Chapter 2: 
We Saved the World from a Third World War: An Interview with General Pavel Kosenko 
by Josef Pazderka 
Chapter 3: Of Course It Makes One Feel Sorry: An Interview with General Eduard Vorobyev 
by Josef Pazderka Chapter 4: 
We Were Uninvited Guests: A Soviet Paratrooper Recalls the Invasion
 by Josef Pazderka Chapter 5: 
Unrest in the Backwoods. On some Psychological Aspects in the Perception of the 1968 Events in the Periphery of Russia
 by Leonid Shinkarev Chapter 6: 
The Events in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Embassy in Prague in 1967-68
 by Olga Pavlenko Chapter 7: 
KGB and the Czechoslovak crisis of 1968
 by Nikita V. Petrov Chapter 8: 
The Fate of Some Russian Journalists in August 1968
 by Dmitry Beloshevsky Chapter 9: 
“1968 Changed Us”: An Interview with Vladimir Lukin
 by Josef Pazderka Chapter 10: 
Gorbachev’s People from Dejvice, Prague: The Prague Editorial Board of the World Marxist Review Through the Eyes of Petr Pithart 
by Petr Pithart Chapter 11: 
“I Tried to Talk to Them”: An Interview with the Journalist Vladlen Krivosheyev
 by Josef Pazderka Chapter 12: 
Disgrace. On the Perception of the Invasion of Czechoslovakia in Literary and Humanistic Circles. Development and Psychopathology of the Relationships
 by Tomáš Glanc Chapter 13: 
That’s When Our Illusions Were Dispelled Once and for All: An Interview with Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a Soviet Dissident
 by Josef Pazderka Chapter 14: 
A Few Minutes of Freedom: An Interview with Natalya Gorbanevskaya, a Soviet Dissident
 by Josef Pazderka Chapter 15: 
Diary of Elvira Filipovich (1967–71)
 by Elvira Filipovich