{"product_id":"2026100007168-secondhand-night-frost-in-prague-the-end-of-humane-socialism-signed","title":"Night Frost In Prague: The End Of Humane Socialism (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Signed by Alexander Dubček. Rear board slightly damaged - cardboard showing. Internally sound - binding remains tight. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the shadow of Soviet tanks and the crushing of a nation's hope, Night Frost in Prague stands as one of the most searingly honest political memoirs to emerge from behind the Iron Curtain. Zdeněk Mlynář — a senior Communist Party official and close friend of Mikhail Gorbachev — presents a gripping first-hand chronicle of the Prague Spring of 1968, tracing the bold experiment in democratic socialism that briefly flourished under Alexander Dubček before being brutally extinguished by the Warsaw Pact invasion. With the unflinching precision of an insider who helped shape Czechoslovak reform policy, Mlynář details the idealism, the internal party struggles, and the ultimate catastrophe of August 1968 with a clarity that no outside observer could match.\n\nBeyond its role as personal testimony, this work stands as a landmark document in the political history of 20th-century Eastern Europe, dissecting the fatal contradictions between Soviet imperial ideology and the human impulse toward freedom. Mlynář's prose — translated with remarkable fidelity by Paul Wilson — carries both the weight of lived experience and the analytical rigour of a seasoned political thinker, producing a text that is simultaneously a confession, an indictment, and a warning. Decades after its first publication, it remains an indispensable key to understanding how great hopes are broken by power — and why they refuse to die.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130810409179,"sku":"2026100007168-SECONDHAND","price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/2ff16437-3d7f-4aa1-ae90-95e2ae5cb3b5.png?v=1786590427","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007168-secondhand-night-frost-in-prague-the-end-of-humane-socialism-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}