Volume 12, Number 12 · June 19, 1969
The Rise and Fall of the Czech Rebellion
By Neal Ascherson
The Seventh Night
by Ladislav Mnacko
Dutton, 220 pp., $5.95
The Czech Black Book Sciences
compiled by the Historical Section of the Czechoslovak Academy of, edited by Robert Littell
Praeger, 316 pp., $6.95
The Voices
by Joseph Wechsberg
Doubleday, 120 pp., $3.95
Prague's Two Hundred Days
by Harry Schwartz
Praeger, 274 pp., $5.95
Prague Spring: A Report on Czechoslovakia 1968
by Z.A.B. Zeman
Hill & Wang, 160 pp., $5.00
Plan and Market Under Socialism
by Ota Sik
International Arts and Sciences (White Plains, N.Y.), 382, n.p. pp.
Reading these books in Prague, in the chilly spring of Dr. Husak when the snow lay grimily in the ditches and the censored newspapers piled up unsold in the kiosks, I found myself doing what the Czechs and Slovaks were doing: taking the first chance for months to look back and size up history. Alexander Dubcek has fallen. As a Czech friend said, 'There is only one good thing about this. The great schizophrenia is over. We no longer have to protect the leaders we loved while rejecting the compromise they were forced to put into practice. The situation is black and white now, and in a way we feel more free.'
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