This doctrine was announced to retroactively justify the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 that ended the Prague Spring, along with earlier Soviet military interventions, such as the invasion of Hungary in 1956.

Category: Prague Spring

The ČSLA offered no resistance to the invasion mounted by the Soviets in 1968 in reaction to the " Prague Spring ", and was extensively reorganized by the Soviets following the re-imposition of communist rule in Prague.

In 1968, I was glad at the political liberalism of the Dubcek Prague Spring, but was very critical of the Third Way they pursued in economics.

* 1968: The Prague Spring crushed by Soviet tanks.

* 1969 – Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets ' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.

The Non-Aligned Yugoslavia was concerned about an eventual aggression from any of the superpowers, especially by the Warsaw Pact after the Prague Spring, so the Territorial Defense Forces were formed as an integral part of the total war military doctrine called Total National Defense.

The Prague Spring was legitimised by the Czechoslovak government as a socialist reform movement.

The Prague Spring reforms were an attempt by Dubček to grant additional rights to the citizens in an act of partial decentralization of the economy and democratization.

This was the only change that survived the end of the Prague Spring.

The Prague Spring inspired music and literature such as the work of Václav Havel, Karel Husa, Karel Kryl, and Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

At the time of the Prague Spring, Czechoslovak exports were declining in competitiveness, and Dubček's reforms planned to solve these troubles by mixing planned and market economies.

< i > The Prague Spring and Its Aftermath: Czechoslovak Politics, 1968 – 1970 .</ i > Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp 67 .</ ref > The first tangible manifestation of this new policy of openness was the production of the previously hard-line communist weekly < i > Literarni noviny </ i >, renamed < i > Literarni listy </ i >.< ref > Bren, Paulina.

< i > The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring </ i >.

The Prague Spring is featured in several works of literature.

Milan Kundera set his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being during the Prague Spring.

Rock ' n ' Roll, a play by award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard, references the Prague Spring, as well as the 1989 Velvet Revolution.

Heda Margolius Kovály also ends her memoir Under a Cruel Star with a first hand account of the Prague Spring and the subsequent invasion, and her reflections upon these events.

In film there has been an adaptation of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and also the movie Pelíšky from director Jan Hřebejk and screenwriter Petr Jarchovský, which depicts the events of the Prague Spring and ends with the invasion by the Soviet Union and their allies.

The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 ( Lexington Books, 20100 510 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-4304-9

* Think Quest – The Prague Spring 1968

* Prague Life – More information on the Prague Spring

Charles IV (,, ; 14 May 1316, Prague – 29 November 1378 ), born Wenceslaus ( Václav ), was the second king of Bohemia from the House of Luxembourg, and the first king of Bohemia to also become Holy Roman Emperor.

Prague Ruzyně International Airport (,,, serves Prague, Czech Republic.

Ostrava (,, ) is the third largest city in the Czech Republic and the second largest urban agglomeration after Prague.

The Prague Spring International Music Festival (, commonly, Prague Spring ) is a permanent showcase for outstanding performing artists, symphony orchestras and chamber music ensembles of the world.

They were brothers of Czech missionary and bishop st. Adalbert of Prague (, ).

* Josef ( Franz Jaroslav ) Schaller (, 1738, born here-1809, Prague ), Czech historian and geographer.

Ivan Pulyui (, ) ( 2 February 1845 in Hrymailiv, a village near Ternopil, Austria – Hungary – 31 January 1918 in Prague ) was a Ukrainian-born physicist, inventor and patriot who has been championed as an early developer of the use of X-rays for medical imaging.

The Czech National Bank (, ČNB ) is the central bank and financial market supervisor in the Czech Republic with its headquarters in Prague.

Rudolf Charousek (,, born September 19, 1873, Prague – died April 18, 1900, Budapest ) was a Hungarian chess player.

The University of Economics, Prague, (, abbreviated VŠE ) is a public university located in Prague, Czech Republic.

Anton Gindely (, 3 September 1829, Prague-24 October 1892 ) was a Bohemian historian, a son of an ethnic-German father from Hungary and a Czech mother, born in Prague.

Five years were spent with the Cologne Opera, after which he was called to Prague by Alexander von Zemlinsky, teacher of Arnold Schonberg and Erich Korngold.

She was from Prague.

Ambros studied at the University of Prague and was well-educated in music and the arts, which were his abiding passion.

Ambros was professor of the history of music at Prague from 1869 to 1871.

Saint Adalbert, Czech: ;, ( c. 956 – April 23, 997 ), Czech Roman Catholic saint, a Bishop of Prague and a missionary, was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians.

His father was a rich and independent ruler of the Zličan princedom that rivaled Prague ( see Slavník's dynasty ).

John had his officials sell indulgences, a controversial practice that was protested in various parts of Europe, for instance by the followers of Jan Hus in Prague.

In addition, when Lorenzo Da Ponte was in Prague preparing the production of Mozart's setting of his Don Giovanni, the poet was ordered back to Vienna for a royal wedding for which Salieri's Axur, re d ' Ormus would be performed.

It was subsequently acquired by the Emperor Rudolf II and taken to Prague.

Mozart's opera Don Giovanni was originally intended to be performed in honor of Anton and his wife for a visit to Prague on 14 October 1787, as they traveled between Dresden and Vienna, and librettos were printed with dedication to them.

The army was involved in a number of border skirmishes from 1948 to 1952, repulsing several Greek attacks, and took part in the suppression of the Prague spring events.

Karmal survived this purge, probably due to his contacts with the Soviets, and was sent to exile in Prague.

More problematic is that between 2004 and 2006 he was an executive director of a lobbying company Dutko Worldwide Prague.

In 1835 started to work at the Prague Polytechnic ( now Czech Technical University ), where he was appointed in 1841.

Doppler's research in Prague was interrupted by the revolutionary incidents of March 1848, when he fled to Vienna.

The only indication is communicated by the chronicler Cosmas of Prague, who stated that the Bohemian princess at the time of her marriage with Mieszko I was an old woman.

After the Great War, there was a proposal for the League of Nations to accept Esperanto as their working language, following a report by Nitobe Inazō, an official delegate of League of Nations during the 13th World Congress of Esperanto in Prague.

The first languages for which standardisation was promoted included Italian (" questione della lingua ": Modern Tuscan / Florentine vs. Old Tuscan / Florentine vs. Venetian > Modern Florentine + archaic Tuscan + Upper Italian ), French ( the standard is based on Parisian ), English ( the standard is based on the London dialect ) and ( High ) German ( based on the dialects of the chancellery of Meissen in Saxony, Middle German and the chancellery of Prague in Bohemia (" Common German ")).

* The structuralist functionalism of the Prague school, was the earliest functionalist framework developed in the 1920s.