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,Ceauşescu’s Finest Hour? Memorialising Romanian Responses to the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovus population backed the ‘patriotic’ anti-Russian stance of their young ruler, Nicolae Ceauşescu. He explores the resonance of the 1968 events in Romanian collective memory through twenty oral history interviews conducted in an ethnically-mixed rural settlement in western Romania. The invasion prove

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,The ‘June Events’: The 1968 Student Protests in Yugoslavia,in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were driven more by internal than external factors. As Morrison shows in this chapter, the grievances and demands of the students were framed in the context of Yugoslav social, economic and political developments of the 1960s. There was no real threat

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,1968: The Prague Spring and the Albanian ‘Castle’, to formally withdraw Albania from the Warsaw Pact, was not so much an act of political courage by Enver Hoxha, but more a piece of political theatre. Lalaj provides two main reasons why the liberalising reforms in Prague did not penetrate this Balkan corner. One was the traditional isolationist pol

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Echoes of the Prague Spring in the Soviet Baltic Republics,es in the Baltic States, the events of the Prague Spring had a Baltic echo. After purging ‘National Communists’ from the Estonian and Latvian Communist Parties in the 1950s, the authorities were ready to act against any sign of independent thinking and this propaganda offensive was by and large succ

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,‘Down with Revisionism and Irredentism’: Soviet Moldavia and the Prague Spring, 1968–72,ed by Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu’s hard-line stance against Moscow. In this chapter, Caşu refines the conventional view. Based on archival documents, he shows that rural ethnic Romanians overwhelmingly endorsed the reforms in Czechoslovakia and Romania’s anti-invasion position in August 1968.

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,Ceauşescu’s Finest Hour? Memorialising Romanian Responses to the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovs to be not as present in local memory as one would expect after reading the historians who have addressed the subject. Goina questions the claim that the 1968 events brought Ceauşescu’s communist regime broad popular support and suggests that this assumption could, and most probably should, be qualified.

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,1968: The Prague Spring and the Albanian ‘Castle’,icy of the Albanians, which the communists had perfected by the 1960s. Second was that in Tirana a series of party-sponsored ‘popular’ movements, some inspired by Mao’s Cultural Revolution, were at their peak. It seems that Hoxha was motivated by the vision of a society where everyone controls each other and the party controls everyone.