Preface x // List of abbreviations xii // Part I Liberalization, intervention, and normalization // 1 Liberalization 3 // 2 Intervention 29 // 3 Normalization 39 // Part II January 1968-December 1970 // 4 The erosion of Soviet trust 63 // 5 The failure of Operation Danube 112 // 6 Dubček’s normalization 144 // 7 The realist ascendancy 192 // 8 The security police in the Dubček period 210 // 9 After Dubček 226 // Select bibliography 254 // Index 266