Prague Spring

noun

1. a brief period of democratization in Czechoslovakia in 1968, under Alexander Dubček.

Example Sentences

Czech dissident-turned-statesman Vaclav Havel, in his famous essay “The Power of the Powerless,” described the Prague Spring not only as a “clash between two groups on the level of real power” but as the “final act … of a long drama originally played out chiefly in the theatre of the spirit and the conscience of society.”

From Los Angeles Times

Jan Palach, the 20-year-old Czech student who set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square in 1969 in protest against the Prague Spring.

From Salon

After the 1968 Soviet-led invasion crushed a period of liberal reforms in Czechoslovakia known as the Prague Spring and the country was taken over by a hard-line communist regime, Janouch was fired from the institute and banned from lecturing.

From Seattle Times

Only an hour before, she had sent an email to a colleague about plans for the Prague Spring music festival next May.

From BBC

He was fired after he played a song ridiculing the Soviet troops who invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968 to crush the Prague Spring, the brief period of liberal reforms meant to lead to the democratization of the country.

From Seattle Times