In Prague, the year 1968 began with a bold attempt to reform and liberalize its creaking Soviet communist regime from within, 50 years later, authoritarianism is again on the rise in Eastern Europe.

GOOD MORNNG: Robert Vaughn, emotionally wrung out after standing vigil Friday with Ted Kennedy at the casket of his friend Robert F.K., departed N.Y. yesterday for Prague, to start “Bridge at Remagen.

A new book and companion exhibition highlight a Czech photographer's stunning snapshots of the Soviet invasion of Prague. Josef Koudelka/Magnum PhotosWenceslas Square, Prague, 1968 One afternoon in ...

A unique document of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, what began as a documentary about the liberalization of Czechoslovakia evolved into a record of the entry of Russian tanks into Prague.

Fifty years ago, writers -- including Milan Kundera -- and a bizarre scandal helped spark a fleeting but heady spell of openness in communist Czechoslovakia before Soviet tanks rolled in to crush it.

On Saint Wenceslas Day, 1968, a group of young people in Prague attempted a quiet but short-lived demonstration in spite of the Soviet presence. The tenth-century legend was the one they passed around ...

A movement by an enclave in the communist bloc to grant its people the greater freedoms enjoyed in the West — that’s the drama playing out in Hong Kong today. Yet as youthful protestors wave American ...

Through his camera's lens, Josef Koudelka elevated the horrors of incursion to biblical heights. The Czechoslovakian exile's subject was the August 1968 invasion of Prague, a horrific series of events ...

This year, NPR is looking at the events of 1968 that continue to shape our world. Fifty years ago today, Czechoslovakia's parliament under duress approved a treaty sanctioning the occupation of the ...

One afternoon in early September, the Czech photographer Josef Koudelka was administering a bottle of cognac to a group of well-wishers at the Pace/MacGill Gallery, two placid, spacious rooms on the ...