Research Catalog

Title

The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 : the Russian perspective / edited by Josef Pazderka.

Publication

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

Pazderka, Josef

Description

xvi, 288 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"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.

Series Statement

The Harvard Cold War studies book series

Uniform Title

Harvard Cold War studies book series.

Subject

• Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti
• Intervention in Czechoslovakia (1968)
• 1968
• Espionage, Soviet > Czechoslovakia
• Public opinion > Soviet Union
• Diplomatic relations
• Espionage, Soviet
• Public opinion, Russian
• Czechoslovakia > History > Foreign public opinion, Russian. > Intervention, 1968
• Czechoslovakia > History > Intervention, 1968 > Sources
• Czechoslovakia > Foreign relations > Soviet Union > Sources
• Soviet Union > Foreign relations > Czechoslovakia > Sources
• Czechoslovakia
• Soviet Union

Genre/Form

• History.
• Sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Prologue: The Russian "Prague Spring" / Josef Pazderka -- We came to carry out a mission: Soviet soldiers and their views of the invasion / Daniel Povolný -- We saved the world from a Third World War: An Interview with General Pavel Kosenkoo / Josef Pazderka -- Of course it makes one feel sorry: an interview with General Eduard Vorobyev / Josef Pazderka -- We were uninvited guests: a Soviet paratrooper recalls the invasion / Josef Pazderka -- Unrest in the backwoods. On some psychological aspects in the perception of the 1968 events in the periphery of Russia / Leonid Shinkarev -- The events in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Embassy in Prague in 1967-68 / Olga Pavlenko -- KGB and the Czechoslovak crisis of 1968 / Nikita V. Petrov -- The fate of some Russian journalists in August 1968 / Dmitry Beloshevsky -- "1968 changed us": an interview with Vladimir Lukin / Josef Pazderka -- Gorbachev's people from Dejvice, Prague: The Prague Editorial Board of the World Marxist Review through the eyes of Petr Pithart / Petr Pithart -- "I tried to talk to them": an interview with the journalist Vladlen Krivosheyev / Josef Pazderka -- Disgrace. On the perception of the invasion of Czechoslovakia in literary and humanistic circles. Development and psychopathology of the relationships / Tomás Glanc -- That's when our illusions were dispelled once and for all: an interview with Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a Soviet dissident / Josef Pazderka -- A few minutes of freedom: an interview with Natalya Gorbanevskaya, a Soviett dissident / Josef Pazderka -- Diary of Elvira Filipovich (1967-71) / Elvira Filipovich.

Call Number

JFE 19-9289

ISBN

• 9781793602923
• 1793602921

LCCN

• 2019016684
• 40029339077

OCLC

1089962287

Title

The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 : the Russian perspective / edited by Josef Pazderka.

Publisher

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Harvard Cold War studies book series

Harvard Cold War studies book series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1968

Added Author

Pazderka, Josef, editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781793602930

Other Standard Identifier

40029339077

Research Call Number

JFE 19-9289