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2018 is the fiftieth anniversary of the brief period of liberalisation in communist Czechoslovakia known as ‘The Prague Spring’.

This culminated in August 1968, when the Soviet Union and other members of the Warsaw Pact invaded the country to halt the reforms.

At the time, Dr Frank Carter, a young ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº historical geographer, was collecting research material in Prague and Pilsen, and returned with a vivid series of images of the invaders, the graffiti responses of Pilsen’s population, and contemporary press and other protest publications.

Some of this material forms the basis of an exhibition to mark these events, The Prague Spring through the Lens of Frank Carter.

With English translations, it gives a vivid impression of life in Pilsen during the invasion.

The exhibition is being launched as part of the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Festival of Culture 2018 at 4 pm on 4^th June 2018, and will continue for the week, until 8^th June, in the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº SSEES Building, Taviton Street, Masaryk Room, 4^thÌý¹ó±ô´Ç´Ç°ù.

Link

• The Prague Spring Through the Lens of Frank Carter