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 (, ) was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II.

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.

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.

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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

While in Rome for Otto's imperial coronation, Bruno met Saint Adalbert of Prague, the first Apostle of the Prussians, killed a year later, which inspired Bruno to write a biography of St Adalbert when he reached the recently Christianized and consolidated Kingdom of Hungary himself.

The establishment of a medieval university in Prague was inspired by Holy Roman Emperor Charles of Luxembourg.

* The Dancing House in Prague ( Czech: Tancici dum ), sometimes known as Ginger and Fred, was designed by American architect Frank Geary and inspired by the dancing of Astaire and Rogers.

The Prague years had a great impact on Štefánik, because he met many important personalities there: the philosophy lectures were taught by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk ( the future first president of Czechoslovakia ), who inspired Štefánik with the idea of cooperation of the Czechs and the Slovaks.

The Prague Manifesto did not contain any anti-semitic or otherwise racially inspired rhetoric, which caused a conflict with many Nazi propagandists.

Throughout his life he was also inspired by spectacular landscapes, both abroad ( France, Italy, and Greece ) as well as in his native country ( Vodňany, Okrouhlice, Prague ).

He published a book called Croatian Spring, claiming that the movement, previously known as Maspok, was inspired by Prague Spring and extinguished in the same manner.

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.

" Local music lovers paid for Mozart to visit Prague and hear the production ; he listened on 17 January 1787, and conducted it himself on the 22nd.

In 1810, Weber visited several cities throughout Germany ; from 1813 to 1816 he was director of the Opera in Prague ; from 1816 to 1817 he worked in Berlin, and from 1817 onwards he was director of the prestigious Opera in Dresden, working hard to establish a German Opera, in reaction to the Italian Opera which had dominated the European music scene since the 18th century.

Finally, and perhaps most remarkably, Byrd's Quomodo cantabimus is the result of a motet exchange between Byrd and Philippe de Monte, who was director of music to the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, in Prague.

* 2000: Monte Cristo by Karel Svoboda ( music ) and Zdenek Borovec ( lyrics ), Prague

After his conventional schooling, he studied music under Josef Proksch in Prague.

His first nationalistic music was written during the 1848 Prague uprising, in which he briefly participated.

His symphonic poem Paa Vidderne was performed in Christiania in 1891 and in Monte Carlo in 1894 ; Gunnar Heiberg commissioned Delius to provide incidental music for his play Folkeraadet in 1897 ; and Delius's second opera, The Magic Fountain, was accepted for staging at Prague, but the project fell through for unknown reasons.

Operatic pastiches with the title Tullo Ostilio performed in Prague in 1727 and Brno in 1735 included music of Antonio Vivaldi.

* Radio 1 ( Czech Republic ), a commercial music radio station in Prague

The PlayStation 2 version includes an exclusive level which takes place in a nuclear power plant, new cinematics, a new intro cinematic with original music by the Prague Orchestra, and many behind-the-scenes interviews and documentaries both about the new intro and the game itself.

While his younger brother Anton entered cadet school in Vienna to become a professional officer, Franz studied violin and composition at the Prague Conservatory, where his violin teacher was Antonín Bennewitz, but was advised by Antonín Dvořák to focus on composing music.

When he finished his studies, he began working as voice teacher at a music school in Prague.

Hanslick was born in Prague, the son of Joseph Adolph Hanslick, a bibliographer and music teacher from a German-speaking family, and one of his piano pupils, the daughter of a Jewish merchant from Vienna.

He also studied law at Prague University and obtained a degree in that field, but his amateur study of music eventually led to writing music reviews for small town newspapers, then the Wiener Musik-Zeitung and eventually the Neue Freie Presse, where he was music critic until retirement.

The 1880s saw the decline of traditional music ; however, Janáček brought a Moravian string band to the 1895 Ethnographical Exhibition in Prague, which led to increased feelings of national pride and identity, and a resurgence in traditional music.

From this region we know a man called Václav z Prachatic ( Václav of Prachatice ), who dealt with the theory of music at the Charles University in Prague.

Finally, after the Prague premiere of Salome in 1906, Novák formed an attachment to the music of Richard Strauss that would remain for the rest of his career.

In his earliest years after graduating from Prague Conservatory his work began to show some influence from the Moravian and Slovak folk music which he began to collect and study in the late 1890s.

The Prague Trio of Basset-horns, based in the Czech Republic, has a repertoire of music ( originally written for, or transcribed for, three basset horns ) by composers including Mozart, Scott Joplin, and Paul Desmond.