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Prague Spring
Prague SpringThe economic downturn of the early 1960s struck Czechoslovakia with unexpected force. The Soviet model of industrialization applied poorly to a nation…
Socialism with a human faceRadovan Richta coined the phrase Socialism with a human face in early 1968. The Communist Party Presidium adopted this slogan during their April meeting.
Warsaw Pact invasion of CzechoslovakiaIn the late 1950s, Czechoslovakia began a slow process of de-Stalinization under Antonín Novotný. This change moved much slower than in other Eastern Bloc…