Operation Danube Reconsidered

At 11 o´clock in the evening of 20th August 1968, the armies of four Warsaw Pact countries, the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary, crossed the borders of Czechoslovakia, starting the “Operation Danube”. Literally overnight the Czechoslovak experiment with Alexander Dubcek´s liberalization reforms was transformed from living reality into history. Although the Soviet Union’s action successfully halted the pace of reform in Czechoslovakia, it had unintended consequences for both the unity of the communist bloc and the establishment of the new Soviet foreign doctrine. This book brings the international context of the 1968 crisis in Czechoslovakia to the center of attention. It brought together experts from within as well as from without Central Europe with the hope of igniting, or, perhaps better, re-igniting an international discussion on the Prague spring, its origins, its unfolding, its aftermath, and, most importantly, the international context.

The volume’s contributors are: Ljubodarg Dimic, Jakub Drábik, Mihail Gruev, Slavomír Michálek, Miklós Mitrovits, Jackques Rupnik, Alexander Stykalin, Miroslaw Szumilo, Michal Štefanský, and Virgiliu Tarau

Jakub Drábik

Dr. Jakub Drabik (born 1986) is a historian mainly interested in comparative fascism studies but covering a broad range of topics from 20th-century history in his research and teaching. He completed his doctorate at Charles University in Prague in 2014 and, since 2016, is working at the Institute of History at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and teaching at the Masaryk University in Brno. His previous books include Fašista [A Fascist] (Academia, 2017) and Fašizmus [Fascism] (Premedia, 2019).

Peter Bielik

Ljubodarg Dimić

Mihail Gruev

Slavomir Michalek

Slavomír Michálek, Jahrgang 1961, ist Historiker, führender wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter in der Abteilung für neuere Geschichte und Direktor des Historischen Instituts der Slowakischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Bratislava. Micháleks Forschungsgebiete umfassen die Außenpolitik der USA, die tschechisch-amerikanischen Beziehungen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, die Geschichte der Vereinten Nationen, slowakische Persönlichkeiten, die im Dienst der tschechoslowakischen Diplomatie standen, sowie das zweite und dritte slowakische und tschechoslowakische demokratische Exil in Amerika. Er ist Autor zahlreicher Studien in diesen Bereichen und hält regelmäßig Vorträge auf vielen internationalen Konferenzen im In- und Ausland. Er absolvierte mehrere Studien- und Forschungsaufenthalte an Universitäten und Forschungseinrichtungen in Großbritannien, den USA und Kanada.

Miklós Mitrovits

Jacques Rupnik

Alexander Stykalin

Mirosław Szumiło

Michal Stefansky

Delivery time	Delivery time 2-3 working days.
Edited by	Jakub Drábik
Contributions by	Jakub Drábik , Ljubodarg Dimić , Mihail Gruev , Slavomir Michalek , Miklós Mitrovits , Jacques Rupnik , Alexander Stykalin , Mirosław Szumiło , Michal Stefansky
Foreword by	Peter Bielik
Number of Pages	168
Language	English
Type	Paperback
Publication date	21.04.2021
Format	21,0 cm x 14,8 cm
ISBN	978-3-8382-1554-9
Weight	220 g
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"The publication is a contribution to Czechoslovak history in 1968 and its deep international context, revealing the character of the Soviet bloc and the essence of relations between its countries, and the Western and Eastern bloc, too. It is very valuable for both professional historians and for general readers."—Miroslav Lysý, Comenius University Bratislava

"The aim of each article in this collection is to bring new knowledge, interpretations, and evaluation of the current state of research. And the authors succeed in that goal admirably."—Norbert Kmet, Institute of Political Science of the Slovak Academy of Sciences