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In Retrospect: Romania’s Role in the Prague Spring of 1968 and Subsequent Relations with the USSR

PART 1 BY GEORGIA MIRICA Prague Spring refers to a short-lived period of liberalization in the history of communist Czechoslovakia, under the leadership of a newly-elected First Secretary of the Communist Party, Alexander Dubcek. The reform program proposed in April 1968 included granting Slovakia autonomy, providing rehabilitation to citizens that had been victims of severeContinueContinue reading “In Retrospect: Romania’s Role in the Prague Spring of 1968 and Subsequent Relations with the USSR”

An introduction to the “Junimea” Movement

by Georgia Mirica It seems that the youth are always discontent with the world they live in, the world created by their predecessors, creating a perpetual cycle that manifests itself in the present as well as in the past. One of the best-known examples of this in Romanian history can be found in the “Junimea”ContinueContinue reading “An introduction to the “Junimea” Movement”