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| 1968 |
| | | Alexander Dubcek becomes first secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist party, following pressure for reform from party intellectuals | |
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| 1968 |
| | | New Czech leader Alexander Dubcek facilitates the Prague Spring, aiming in his words to provide 'socialism with a human face' | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to end the Prague Spring | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Reformist Czech leader Alexander Dubcek is arrested and flown to Moscow | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Moscow imposes Gustav Husak as first secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, with the brief to reverse Dubcek's reforms | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Czech novelist Milan Kundera publishes The Unbearable Lightness of Being, in the tradition of magic realism | |
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| 1989 |
| | | The Communist party relinquishes power without bloodshed in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Alexander Dubcek is Speaker of Parliament and Václav Havel is President in the new democratic government of Czechoslovakia | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Czechoslovakia divides peacefully into the Czech and Slovak Republics | |
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