From the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, comes the Prague Spring Archive, a collection of digitized materials related to the four month period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia between January and August 1968. Those unfamiliar with the Prague Spring may want to start by exploring the site's Key Figures section and multimedia Timeline. Together, these sections provide an overview of Alexander Dubcek's proposed reforms and the brief political changes that occurred in the country in 1968, only to be crushed by Soviet occupation in August. Next, the Key Documents along with the Guide and Finding Aide reveal more about what can be found in the Texas ScholarWorks online repository. Some of these items may be explored in the Box 179 and Box 180 sections. A few of the many items of interest here include complete State Department booklets on Czechoslovakia and the USSR; an August 22, 1968 memo to President Johnson from W.W. Rostow, deputy special assistant for National Securities Affairs; and Johnson's subsequent statement regarding the admittance of Czech refugees into the United States.
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