By:

Jonas Daniliauskas

Tutor:

T.P. McNeill

March 17, 1995

1. Slovakia;

2. The economy;

3. The legal system;

4. Party and ideology.

All these factors only decreased the level of CPCS’s legitimacy.

On February 14, the first public political discussion took place in Prague.

This showed that the Soviet’s patience reached the end.

But the Soviets did not achieved what they wanted at once. What happened was that the invasion failed to achieve its primary purpose, which clearly was to produce a counterregime a la Kadar

At the same session the CPCS Presidium with its twenty-one members and the Executive Committee with its eight members were replaced by an eleven members Presidium of which Dubcek (but no longer Smrkovsky) was still member. A few days later he was ‘elected’ Chairman of the Federal Assembly with Smrkovsky as his deputy.

1968, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp.38-49

2. Devlin, K., ‘The New Crisis in European Communism’, in Problems of Communism , 1968, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp.57-68

1971, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp.11-21

(New York, Washington, London: Praeger Publishers, 1976), pp.77-94

5. Lowenthal, R., ‘The Sparrow in the Cage’, in Problems of Communism, 1968, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp.2-28

6. Mastny, V., (ed.), Czechoslovakia: Crisis in World Communism (New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1972)

1969, Vol. 18, No. 4-5, pp.2-16

8. Sik, O., ‘The Economic Impact of Stalinism’, in Problems of Communism, 1971, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp.1-10

9. Simons, Th.W., Eastern Europe in the Postwar World, (2nd. ed., London: Macmillan, 1993)

10. Svitak, I., The Czechoslovak Experiment: 1968-1969 (New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1971)

11. Tigrid, P., Why Dubcek Fell (London: Macdonald, 1971)

12. White, St., Batt, J. and Lewis, P.J. (eds.), Developments in East European Politics (London: Macmillan, 1993)

Tigrid, P., Why Dubcek Fell (London: Macdonald, 1971), p.17

Sik, O., ‘The Economic Impact of Stalinism’, in Problems of Communism , 1971, Vol. 20, No. 3, p.5

, 1971, Vol. 20, No. 3, p.12

Ibid., p.13

Ibid., p.11

Tigrid, P., op.cit., p.19

Ibid., p.30

Ibid., p.43

Mastny, V., (ed.), Czechoslovakia: Crisis in World Communism (New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1972), p.21

Tigrid, P., op.cit., p.48

, 1968, Vol. 17, No. 6, p.48

Tigrid, P. op.cit., p.57

Mastny, V., op.cit., p.37

Ibid., p.40

Tigrid, P., op.cit., p.89

Ibid., p.53

Ibid., p.69

Ibid., p.53

Svitak, I., The Czechoslovak Experiment 1968-1969 (New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1971), p.109

Mastny, V., op.cit., p.69

Ibid., p.71

Ibid., p.76

, 1969, Vol. 18, No. 4-5, p.3

Svitak, I., op.cit., p.109

Provaznik, J., op.cit., p.4

Lowenthal, R., ‘The Sparrow in the Cage’, in Problems of Communism , 1968, Vol. 17, No. 6, p.24

Simons, Th.W., Eastern Europe in the Postwar World (2nd. ed., London: Macmillan, 1993), p.124

Devlin, K., ‘The New Crisis in European Communism’, in Problems of Communism , 1968, Vol.17, No. 6, p.61

Tigrid, P., op.cit., p.138

Ibid., p.153

Ibid., p.164

(New York, Washington, London: Praeger Publishers, 1976), p.78

Ibid., p.81

Ibid., p.87

Tigrid, P., op.cit., p.66

Ibid., p.98