East European History

Table of Contents

Courses

History 0200

• Topic 1
• Topic 2
• Topic 3
• Topic 4
• Topic 5
• Midterm Review
• Final Exam Options
• Final Review

Historical Timelines

• 1998-1953

• 1953-1998

History 1270

• Outline
• Questions

Useful Links

Maps

Related Sites

News Sources

Library Resources

Topic Three - Lecture Four

Eastern Europe in the 1960s:

The Limits of 'Socialism with a Human Face' (Czechoslovakia)

I. Introduction: 'gulash' communism & detente

• economics
• cultural trends: student protests, rock n' roll, flower children

II. Democratic Socialism & the Prague Spring (1968)

• intellectual ferment began 1962, culminated 1968

January

• Antonin Novotny, Czech Stalinist, replaced by Slovak Alexander Dubcek
• Dubcek's program: Socialism with a Human Face

May:

• Mlynar, 'Towards a Democratic Political Organization of Society'

June:

• Ludvik Vaculik, '2000 Words to Workers, Farmers, Scientists, Artists, and Everyone'

III. Foreign Policy Implications

IV. August 68: the Brezhnev Doctrine & the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia,

V. Normalization and Charter 77