Prague Spring

American  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Not until the Prague Spring of the late 1960s would the city get a taste of freedom again, only to be crushed by a Soviet invasion in August 1968 that would delay a democratic transformation for another two decades.

From The Wall Street Journal

Stoppard looked to his Czech roots with this drama, connecting the Prague Spring of 1968 with the Velvet Revolution of 1989 through music.

From Los Angeles Times

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

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