Abstract
The Czech historian Michal Reiman, an expert on the history of the Soviet Union, presents here an edited record of his private meeting with Alexander Dubček in Vienna in November 1988. Dubček was returning from Italy, where he had just been conferred an honorary doctorate by the University of Bologna.
From the interview we learn his views of the political situation in Czechoslovakia at the time and his own current position ar home. According to Reiman, Dubček did not consider using his growing renown to assume a more important political role; instead, he remained convinced of the necessity of reform of the Czechoslovak Communist Party fron within as a means to rectify the situation, and was somewhat preoccupied with a desire for the rehabilitation of both the "Prague Spring" of 1968 and his own reputation.