1968

by Petr Pithart

A political insider during Prague’s spring of 1968, Dr. Petr Pithart amassed detailed information on the processes which led to the famed event, as well as its fall. failure. Pithart’s book is a critical and open analysis on the causes of the the underestimation of the international context, the mistreating of the Slovak question, and the ambiguous relationship between the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and society at large. Pithart places the events which occurred, and behavior by locals, intellectuals and politicians, into a wider social, political, and cultural context. Of particular interest is a critical evaluation of modern Czech political culture. Pithart’s book is without a doubt one of the major publications on Central European politics during Communism. In his critical approach Pithart follows the example of the first Czechoslovak president Thomas Garrigue-Masaryk. The reader will be acquainted also with important Czech political and cultural discussions which took part in the sixties and seventies

290 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2003