THE REFORMS: DUBČEK TO GRANT

PRAGUE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS TO THE CITIZENS

OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN AN ACT OF

SPRING PARTIAL DECENTRALIZATION OF THE

ECONOMY AND DEMOCRATIZATION.

IT BEGAN ON 5 JANUARY 1968

WAS A PERIOD OF POLITICAL

LIBERALIZATION IN AFTER DUBČEK CZECHOSLOVAKIA BEGAN
CZECHOSLOVAKIA DURING THE
A PERIOD KNOWN AS "NORMALIZATION":
ERA OF ITS DOMINATION BY
THE SOVIET UNION AFTER IT SOUGHT TO RECOVER THE POLITICAL
WORLD WAR II AND ECONOMIC LEADERS THAT HAD
PREVAILED. GUSTÁV HUSÁK REPLACED
DUBČEK AND ALSO BECAME PRESIDENT,
REVERSING ALMOST ALL OF DUBČEK'S
REFORMS. PRAGUE SPRING INSPIRED
MUSIC AND LITERATURE.