Slovakian party leader Dubcek’s ascendancy to the top job brought with it official intimations of “socialism with a human face”. Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev had refused to ...

By April the government had published an “action program” outlining Dubcek’s plans to establish “socialism with a human face”. The plan provided for a gradual democratization of the ...

WELNA: They called it socialism with a human face. Another scholar of the Prague Spring, Drake University's Kieran Williams, says hard-line Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev did not see it that way.

Excellent pamphlet from Solidarity with a critique of the myth of the Prague Spring. It recounts the internal struggles in the Czech Communist Party as the technocrats outmanoeuvre the dogmatists, and ...

even a proponent of socialism with a human face. Ceausescu himself cultivated this image at times. Even some Romanian intellectuals and technocrats bought into this demagoguery, while some ...

initiated a project of liberalization that he said would offer “socialism with a human face.” What followed was a rebirth of political and cultural freedom long denied by party leaders loyal ...