Prague Spring
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A bystander watches a Soviet tank drive down a Prague street in 1968. In August, Warsaw Pact forces had come to crush the liberal regime of the Czechoslovak communist party leader Alexander Dubček. His reforms, which were known as the Prague Spring or ‘socialism with a human face’, were for the most part reversed by new leaders installed by Soviet Russia.
The 1968 programme of liberalization, begun under a new Communist Party leader in Czechoslovakia. In August 1968 Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia and entered the capital Prague to put down the liberalization movement initiated by the prime minister Alexander Dubček, who had earlier sought to assure the Soviets that his planned reforms would not threaten socialism. Dubček was arrested but released soon afterwards. Most of the Prague Spring reforms were reversed. See also Czechoslovakia, Prague Spring.
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