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Prague Spring, Prelude To The Velvet Revolution, Travis Mueller
Prague Spring, Prelude To The Velvet Revolution, Travis Mueller
The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing
In the late 1980s, the world watched communism topple. Political and economic reforms started by Gorbachev in the Soviet Union caused a chain reaction in the Soviet Eastern European satellite states. These countries finally felt able to initiate their own reforms and for the first time in decades the people could collectively voice their opinions. Particularly notable was the Czechoslovak popular movement of the late 1980s chat froze the power of the Soviet-supported government and forced its leaders to resign. This revolution, known as the Velvet Revolution, is unique among ocher political revolutions in chat it was almost entirely peaceful, …