‘When the elephant swallowed the hedgehog’: the Prague spring & Indo-Soviet relations, 1968

Kona Nayudu, Swapna (2017) ‘When the elephant swallowed the hedgehog’: the Prague spring & Indo-Soviet relations, 1968. The CWIHP Working Paper Series (83). Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C, USA.

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This paper introduces India’s responses to the Prague Spring of 1968. Historically, this episode has been studied in the larger flow of crises that constituted the Indo-Soviet relationship, such as the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The Soviet Union’s handling of these political crises—according to traditional narratives—attracted widespread international censure, and yet the Indian state continued to support Moscow (or, at the very least, not publicly condemn its actions). India’s support for the Soviet Union constituted and led to the development of a robust relationship between the two states, culminating in the signing of the Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship of 1971.

Item Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Official URL:	https://www.wilsoncenter.org/program/cold-war-inte...
Additional Information:	© 2017 The Author
Divisions:	IGA: LSE IDEAS
Subjects:	J Political Science > JZ International relations
Date Deposited:	11 Sep 2017 08:13
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 23:42
Projects:	Cold War International History Project
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/84195

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