Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1970 viewed by the Soviet writers’ delegation
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31168/2073-5731.2022.3-4.5.03Keywords:
Prague Spring, intervention in Czechoslovakia on August 21, 1968, normalization regime in Czechoslovakia, Soviet-Czechoslovak cultural tiesAbstract
The invasion of Czechoslovakia by the troops of the five Warsaw Pact countries on August 21, 1968 dealt a tremendous blow to Soviet-Czechoslovak cultural ties. Only a small minority of writers and masters of arts, supporting the policy of the so-called “normalization”, showed their readiness to continue to maintain official contacts with the Soviet side. The delegation of Soviet writers, which arrived in March, 1970, was officially received only in Slovakia. The authorities did not dare to hold any official events in Prague, where the boycott by the creative intelligentsia of everything that came from the Soviet side was dominating. The short trip of two Soviet writers to Prague to get acquainted with the situation in literary life was not advertised at all. Readers are provided with the report of the Soviet delegation to the Foreign Commission of the Union of Writers of the USSR on the results of their stay in Czechoslovakia.
Received: 01.06.2022.
Citation
Stykalin A. S. Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1970 viewed by the Soviet writers’ delegation // Slavic Almanac. 2022. No 3–4. P. 430–447 (in Russian). DOI: 10.31168/2073-5731.2022.3-4.5.03
