M. Mark Stolarik, ed., The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968: forty years later
M. Mark Stolarik, ed., The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968: forty years later

Summary/Abstract: The volume gathers the papers presented during the international conference “The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia”, organized in October 2008 by the University of Ottawa. Its most important contribution to the academic literature on the Prague Spring comes from the authors themselves. The editor, M. Mark Stolarik, points that out in the “Introduction”: most authors are natives of Central and East European countries and based their papers on access to recently declassified archives in their countries. M. Mark Stolarik is Chair in Slovak History and Culture at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa, and was the initiator of the above-mentioned conference. The volume reassess the causes and outcomes of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, the internal decision-making process and the factors acting upon it and also draws interesting conclusions in light of new archival evidence.

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