'To Hell with Sovereignty!': Poland and the Prague Spring

Tony Kemp-Welch

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-77069-7_6

'To Hell with Sovereignty!': Poland and the Prague Spring

Tony Kemp-Welch

School of History and Art History

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Abstract

This chapter shows how Polish society welcomed Alexander Dubček’s appointment as Czechoslovak Party Secretary in early 1968. University staff and students launched a nation-wide campaign for academic freedom and writers protested against state censorship. But the Polish party leader Władysław Gomułka, an acclaimed hero of ‘national communism’ in 1956, now saw the Prague Spring as challenging the maintenance of one-Party rule. He long advocated and then strongly supported the August invasion. Kemp-Welch shows how its subsequent justification, the ‘Brezhnev Doctrine’ of limited sovereignty, was eventually revoked by Gorbachev in 1989.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Eastern Europe in 1968
Subtitle of host publication	Responses to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact Invasion
Editors	Kevin McDermott, Matthew Stibbe
Publisher	Springer
Pages	125-145
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-77068-0
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-77068-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77069-7_6
Publication status	Published - 2018

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