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...authors. The books are being crated and shipped to an unknown destination for pulping. References to them in library card catalogues are being destroyed. Works about or by Czechoslovakia's founder, Tomas Masaryk, and about his successor, Eduard Benes, have disappeared-as have all records relating to Alexander Dubcek's 1968 fall from power. Editions of Marx and Engels fare no better if they contain prefaces by blacklisted authors...
Ulbricht favored similarly harsh measures whenever he felt that orthodox Communist regimes elsewhere in Eastern Europe might permit greater internal freedoms. He championed Soviet intervention in Hungary in 1956 and was the first to denounce the liberal Communist regime of Alexander Dubcek in Czechoslovakia in 1968, earning the hatred of Hungarians and Czechs-but reinforcing his support from Moscow...
...Louvain or Nijmegen in Holland. Publishers have found a vigorous market for works by and about a variety of Marxists: not only such dogmatic mainstream interpreters as Lenin and Mao, but a host of differing theoreticians, ranging from Leon Trotsky to former Czechoslovak Communist Party Leader Alexander Dubcek, who was toppled in 1968 for championing a liberalized Marxism. But "when in ideological trouble," says Manfred Gotthard, a West Berlin student, "we turn to Marx. The answer is always there...
Jiri Pelikan, a former member of the deposed Dubcek government in Czechoslovakia, told a group of about 30 people in Cabot Hall last hight that contradictions between the ideals and the practice of socialism gave rise to the 1968 "Spring of Prague...
...trials are meant not only to punish those who supported Dubcek's reforms three years ago but also to prevent any replay of that "springtime of freedom." The defendants are all party officials or intellectuals. But such revenge is costing the regime heavily among its friends abroad. Italian, British and Swedish Communist newspapers have criticized the trials, and so has the acting head of the French Communist Party, Georges Marchais. One exception: U.S. Communist Angela Davis, to whom Czechoslovak liberals appealed for help. She let it be known through a friend that in her opinion, people in Eastern Europe...