Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968

This collection of interviews, diaries, and scholarly analyses is the first comprehensive look at Russian sentiments in the wake of the Warsaw Pact occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. It features the reflections of Russian soldiers, dissidents, and journalists.

Josef Pazderka is a leading Czech historian and editor-in-chief of the online daily Aktuálne.cz.

Prologue: The Russian 'Prague Spring' by Josef Pazderka Chapter 1: We Came to Carry Out a Mission: Soviet Soldiers and Their Views of the Invasion by Daniel Povolný Chapter 2: We Saved the World from a Third World War: An Interview with General Pavel Kosenko by Josef Pazderka Chapter 3: Of Course It Makes One Feel Sorry: An Interview with General Eduard Vorobyev by Josef Pazderka Chapter 4: We Were Uninvited Guests: A Soviet Paratrooper Recalls the Invasion by Josef Pazderka Chapter 5: Unrest in the Backwoods. On some Psychological Aspects in the Perception of the 1968 Events in the Periphery of Russia by Leonid Shinkarev Chapter 6: The Events in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Embassy in Prague in 1967-68 by Olga Pavlenko Chapter 7: KGB and the Czechoslovak crisis of 1968 by Nikita V. Petrov Chapter 8: The Fate of Some Russian Journalists in August 1968 by Dmitry Beloshevsky Chapter 9: "1968 Changed Us": An Interview with Vladimir Lukin by Josef