Volume 17, Number 3 · September 2, 1971
Rebirth and Death in Czechoslovakia
By Neal Ascherson
Dubcek
by William Shawcross
Simon & Schuster, 317 pp., $7.95
The Czechoslovak Experiment 1968-1969
by Ivan Sviták
Columbia, 241 pp., $10.95
Prague Notebook: The Strangled Revolution
by Michel Salomon, translated by Helen Eustis
Little, Brown, 361 pp., $8.95
A Year Is Eight Months: Czechoslovakia 1968
Journalist M.
Doubleday, 260 pp., $1.95 (paper)
Czechoslovakia Since World War II
by Tad Szulc
Viking, 503 pp., $14.00
Journal d'un contre-révolutionnaire (to be published in November by McGraw-Hill as Diary of a Counter Revolutionary, translated by Ruth Willard (256 pp., $6.95))
by Pavel Kohout
Christian Bourgois (Paris), 334 pp., 33.60 Francs
The Confession
by Artur London, translated by Alastair Hamilton
William Morrow, 442 pp., $7.95
Stalinism in Prague: The Loebl Story
by Eugen Loebl, translated by Maurice Michael
Grove, 327 pp., $1.95 (paper)
The Czechoslovak Political Trials, 1950-1954: The Suppressed Report of the Dubcek Government's Commission of Inquiry, 1968
edited by Jirí Pelikán
Stanford University Press, 360 pp., $10.95
Few people have the sickening privilege of assisting at their own exhumation. But this privilege has been granted to the Czech and Slovak political exiles who left their country after August, 1968. The historical pathologists of Western universities and newspapers poke about in the great mud moraine in which the Czechoslovak experiment in socialist humanism lies buried. Here emerge the stumps of half-completed structures, hastily dug foundations whose purpose and origin today provide matter for invigorating controversies. There lie the contorted shapes of personalities and their utterances, caught in strange and often contradictory attitudes.
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