Daniel Kumermann was a teenager when Soviet troops crushed the 1968 Prague Spring uprising. He remembers “hundreds of tanks rolling around the streets, many destroying parked cars where it was ...

PRAGUE — Could Soviet-style communism be reconciled with the dignity and freedom of the individual? Posted 2018-08-21T00:54:15+00:00 - Updated 2018-08-21T00:53:22+00:00 ...

The “Prague Spring” was an attempt to liberalize communism from the top down with the slogan “Socialism with a human face.” Under the leadership of Alexander Dubček and his fellow-reformers in the ...

Prague Spring: 50 years on what can we learn from Czechoslovakia's failed attempt to reform communism? A programme of liberalisation was met with 2,000 Soviet tanks and 250,000 soldiers on the streets ...

The hybrid feature, which deploys an artful mix of live-action drama and restored archive footage, takes place during the Prague Spring in 1968, when Warsaw Pact troops and tanks rolled into the city.

The annual Prague Spring Festival is one of the biggest musical events in Central Europe. This year's festival is gearing up right now. We'll go back to a performance from last year's series of ...

Lubomir Strougal, who led Czechoslovakia for 18 years during the Cold War and in later years faced prosecution twice on charges related to abuse of power but was never convicted, died Feb. 6 at 98.

Daniel Kumermann was a teenager when Soviet troops crushed the 1968 Prague Spring uprising. He remembers “hundreds of tanks rolling around the streets, many destroying parked cars where it was ...