Prague Spring

January 5 – August 21, 1968 · Prague

Period of reform in Czechoslovakia under Alexander Dubček, who eased censorship and promised 'socialism with a human face'. It ended when Warsaw Pact armies invaded in August 1968.

On the map Contemporaries

Key people

Leonid Brezhnev General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Ordered the invasion · Warsaw Pact

Alexander Dubček First Secretary of the Communist Party, Led the reforms · Czechoslovakia

Participants

Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact
Poland Warsaw Pact
Hungary Warsaw Pact
Bulgaria Warsaw Pact

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Prague Spring

May 68

Also involved 2

Yuri Andropov KGB chairman
Václav Havel participant