country, controlled by Moscow, since the end of the World War Two. Twelve years after the ... This attempt, known as the Prague Spring, lasted for four months until it was crushed by the Soviet ...

Jiří Mucha, who wrote “This Spring in Prague” (April 1, 1968) for The Nation, was a Czech journalist and author who had been arrested, tortured and imprisoned by the government in the early ...

During the Prague Spring, officials had called a mass meeting ... For the first time since the end of the Second World War, and across the world, pluralism, reason, a progressive and humanitarian ...

Prague and Mexico City. The Vietnam War raged on with no end in sight, and in the United States a struggling President Lyndon B. Johnson declined to run for office again. The anti-war Democratic ...