Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees / Refuge: Revue canadienne sur les réfugiés, Vol. 26, No. 1, Sanctuary in Context (Spring 2009), pp. 161-171 (11 pages) In August 1968, the Soviet Union sent ...

While Grimace of the Century at Prague's National Gallery is not dedicated to Kolář's collage series Diary 1968 alone, its constant presence is such that all the works on display cannot but assume a ...

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 ...

For several months in 1968, before the Soviet-ordered Warsaw Pact invasion, Czechoslovakia experienced a short, sweet time of political liberalization under an authoritarian regime. This period was ...

PRAGUE -- Czechs and Slovaks on August 21 are marking 50 years since Soviet tanks crushed the Prague Spring reform movement -- an attempt by Czechoslovak Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek to put ...

On the 23rd of August, 1968, the Russian dissident Natalia Gorbanevskaya, together with nine other members of the opposition, was in Moscow’s Red Square to protest against the invasion of ...

When the tanks of the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations rumbled into Czechoslovakia on August 20, 1968, Czech philosopher Ivan Sviták had a fateful decision to make. Support for gradual ...