SLOVAK politician, proponent of social democracy and the man widely associated with the “political thawing” of the Prague Spring in 1960s communist Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubček, will be ...

Dubček, a charismatic and internationally renowned personality who was the symbol of “communism with a human face” during the Prague Spring in the 1960s, inspired the film to be named The Human Face ...

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A quick primer on some of the historical and cultural items alluded to in Tom Stoppard’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll”: Alexander Dubcek: The Czechoslovakian political leader who ran the country between January ...

Forty-five years ago this month, history’s most notable attempt to resolve socialism’s inherent contradiction began. It failed, as all attempts had previously and all have since. It failed because ...

CZECHOSLOVAKIA ranked second only to Russia in its strict border control until early this year. Then, in one of its most welcome reforms, the Dubcek regime relaxed restrictions on travel,’ and ...

Alexander Dubcek's election in 1968 led to unprecedented reforms in communist Czechoslovakia. But his attempt at "socialism with a human face" failed. It did, however, plant a seed, reports Ian ...

Alexander Dubcek, whose premature attempts to reform Communism led to the Warsaw Pact invasion of 1968, met Saturday with dissident Vaclav Havel, apparently to seal a bargain that seeks to bring both ...

Alexander Dubcek, the Czechoslovak leader whose bol attempt in 1968 to give his country “socialism with a human face” was crushed by an invasion of Soviet-led Warsaw Pact troops, died yesterday. He ...