50 years after the Prague Spring - find out more using our free academic resources.

2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II

 in August 1968 tanks were sent in to crush it.

Here are some resources to find out more.

50th anniversary resources.

Newspaper coverage

A number of universities have special websites.

New York Times

Guardian

Atlantic -photo essay

Radio Free Europe

Academic analysis

The Prague Spring 50 Years After: Great Crises of Communist Régimes in Central Europe in a Transnational Perspective- International Conference- papers available via Youtube channel
USD Institute International History also has some themed pages with chronologies and documents in Czech.

 University of Nebraska Lincoln held a Prague spring at 50 conference . some of the presentations are on their YouTube channel

Documents.

Crisis in Czechoslovakia DODIS

Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland 1848-1975 materials from the Swiss federal Archives.

EurDocs has links to primary source materials by and covering Czechoslovakia it includes some Czech language materials including government and resistance form the Cold War period which might be worth exploring.

Marxist Internet Archive has accounts from dissidents.and contemporary analyses

Prague Spring Archive project—a collaboration between the University of Texas at Austin and the Center for Russian East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), using materials from the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library gives the perspective of the Americans on events. It includes timelines and documents.

Cold War International History Project Wilson Center has some analysis

the digital archive also has primary source materials on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslavakia