Editor’s Note: Daniel Kumermann is a former foreign affairs journalist, Czech Ambassador to Israel (1999-2003), Consul General in Los Angeles (2006-2011), and signatory of the Charter 77 human rights ...

Alexander Dubcek, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, on his arrival at the Central Committee building, Sept.12,1968. S & G/ EMPICS Archive ...

An outpouring of sympathy and remembrances was expected to flow into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from far and wide to mark the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact ...

Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1-2, SPECIAL ISSUE: The White Album: Looking through a Glass Onion (2020), pp. 160-173 (14 pages) ABSTRACT This essay examines songs from the Beatles' ...

Daniel is formerly a research fellow for European affairs in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation. Tuesday marked 50 years since the Soviet Union—along with troops from ...

In Prague, the year 1968 began with a bold attempt to reform and liberalize its creaking Soviet communist regime from within, 50 years later, authoritarianism is again on the rise in Eastern Europe.

Here is a recap of the shock intervention that reined in the Soviet satellite state, its aspirations for democracy warded off for another 20 years. "At 11:00 pm, Soviet, Polish, East German, Bulgarian ...

The 1968 Prague Spring that brought "Socialism with a human face" to Czechoslovakia was personified by the smiling Alexander Dubcek... The 1968 Prague Spring that brought "Socialism with a human face" ...

As Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine intensifies, Western markets hold up, but Russia’s financial system takes a beating. Meanwhile, Europe's reliance on Russia for energy complicates the West's ...

Tuesday marked 50 years since the Soviet Union—along with troops from the Warsaw Pact nations—on Aug. 21, 1968, invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the period of political liberalization that became known ...