Spillover of Revolution: the Baltic Republics and Czechoslovakia 1988-1989

Abstract

The article deals with the bi-directional spillover of the Baltic revolution to Czechoslovakia in 1988-1989, and with first contacts between the Czechoslovak opposition and the Baltic people's fronts. It focuses on the exchange of information at the time when censorship had already been abolished in the Soviet Union.

The Baltic revolution was seen as the most radical part of the larger democratization process in the Soviet Union, and it soon gained the attention of the public in Czechoslovakia.

Keywords

• Perestroika
• Baltic Republics
• Czechoslovakia
• transfer of information
• opposition
• communist party.