Item COLD WAR 7/5 - Transcript of interview with former Communist Party member Zdenek Mylnar, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Zdenek Mylnar [or Mlynar], Czech reform communist, relating to the attempts in Czechoslovakia to reform communism including his role in the authorship of the 1968 Action Programme document which set out socialist reforms; the response of Leonid Brezhnev, Gen Secretary Communist Party, USSR, 1964-1982, to these reforms; the summoning of Alexander Dubcek, Czechoslovakian First Secretary 1969-1969, to Moscow for meeting with Soviet leaders; the invasion of Prague, Czechoslovakia by Soviet troops, 20-21 Aug 1968; Dubcek's negotiations with Soviet leaders in Moscow, Aug 1968; Mylnars resignation from the Communist Party; development of reform movements during the 1970s and the significance of the Charter 77 document published on Jan 1977, and signed by over 200 individuals calling for Czech fulfilment of the Helsinki Final Act, 1975, relating to human rights, to which it was a signatory; and the relationship between Brezhnev and Dubcek. 22pp