Operation Danube Reconsidered

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-3-8382-1554-9
Verlag: ibidem

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 226 g

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 Štefanský, and Virgiliu Tarau

Autoren/Hrsg.

Drábik, Jakub

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bielik, Peter

Dimic, Ljubodarg

Drábik, Jakub

Gruev, Mihail

Michálek, Slavomír

Mitrovits, Miklós

Rupnik, Jacques

Stykalin, Alexander

Szumilo, Miroslaw

Štefanský, Michal

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Invasion und Besatzung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Über Autor(innen)

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 Fašista [A Fascist] (Academia, 2017) and Fašizmus [Fascism] (Premedia, 2019).