Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations and Glossary of Terms; Archival Abbreviations; Chronology of Main Events, 1968-69; East European Communist Party Leadersat the Time of the Prague Spring; The Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact Invasion Through the Soviet and East European Lens; The Prague Spring: 'Socialism with a Human Face'; 'Night Frost in Prague': Soviet Intervention; East European Responses to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact Invasion; The Consequences and Legacies of the Warsaw Pact Invasion

For a Civic Socialism and the Rule of Law: The Interplay of Jurisprudence, Public Opinion and Dissent in Czechoslovakia, 1960s-1980sThe Velvet De-Stalinisation of Michal Lakatoš; The Civic Socialism of Considerations on the Values of Democracy; Reform Socialist Jurisprudence in the Public Sphere; The Prague Spring's Impact on Legal Thinking in Dissent and Revolution; The 'Anti-Prague Spring': Neo-Stalinist and Ultra-Leftist Extremism in Czechoslovakia, 1968-70; Who Were the Neo-Stalinists?; The Jodasites' February Intervention; 'Anti-Communist Terror'

The Leading Role of the Party and Soviet ConnectionsNeo-Stalinists from the Warsaw Pact Invasion to Normalisation; Conclusion; The Impact of the Prague Spring on the USSR; Official Reactions; The Search for Legitimacy; A New Consensus; Dissent; Anti-Soviet Nationalism; Conclusion; Ideological Offensive: The East German Leadership, the Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of August 1968; The Prague Spring and the SED Leadership; On the Eve of the Invasion; The Aftermath of the Invasion; Conclusion; 'To Hell with Sovereignty!': Poland and the Prague Spring

The 'March Events', Anti-Semitism and the Dresden MeetingThe Action Programme and Rising Tensions; Poland and the Invasion; Polish Reactions to the Invasion; Hungary 1968: Reform and the Challenge of the Prague Spring; Internal Developments, 1956-68; Foreign Policy; The Challenge of the Prague Spring and Kádár's Mediation; Towards the Invasion; Hungary and the Military Invasion of Czechoslovakia; Post-invasion Prospects; Social Reactions to the Prague Spring; Conclusion; 1968: A Bulgarian Perspective; Bulgaria and the Decision-Making Process on Intervention

Participation of Bulgarian Troops in the Warsaw Pact InvasionReactions in Bulgaria; Repercussions in the Balkans; Consequences; Ceauşescu's Finest Hour? Memorialising Romanian Responses to the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia; The Historical Context; Intellectual Reactions to Ceauşescu's Stance; August 1968 Remembered in a Transylvanian Village; Conclusion; The 'June Events': The 1968 Student Protests in Yugoslavia; The Context of the 1968 Events; The 'June Events'; The Spread of Discontent; 'The Students Are Right!'-Tito Speaks; Conclusion