The detail of negotiation in the ideological Cold War context is fascinating in these universally well-written/translated essays. Indispensable for any library with even a bare-bones Cold War recollection.... Essential.
CHOICE, July 2010
Of the many books that have been trying to look at the 1968 Czechoslovak crisis from different perspectives, this is the first one to do so in a balanced way while using substantive new evidence as well.
- Vojtech Mastny, author of The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years,
It is at the moment the best collection of international scholarship on Czechoslovakia and the outside powers, which reacted to the unusual phenomenon that blossomed under the name of Prague Spring in that country for several months in 1968. The volume has an elaborate structure as a result, in part, of its complicated creation.
Austrian History Yearbook
Short but elegant.
Canadian Slavonic Papers
The collapse of the Soviet Union has led to immense opportunities for primary research on all aspects of the Cold War as Eastern-bloc archives have begun to open. The vast amount of newly released documentation and first-hand accounts has enabled scholars to gain a much better understanding of events that once seemed impenetrable. The Harvard Cold War Project was established to take advantage of these opportunities by promoting archival research in former Eastern-bloc countries. The Project seeks to expand and enrich what is known about Cold War events and themes, and encourages scholars to use their research on Cold War topics to illuminate current theoretical debates about international and domestic politics. This series, comprising original monographs by scholars working in conjunction with the Harvard Cold War Project, emphasizes the use of new archival evidence to test and reexamine theoretical concepts.
Series Editor: Mark Kramer