"Alexander Dubček profile on the Sakharov Prize Network"

“Hope Dies Last The Autobiography of Alexander Dubcek by Alexander Dubcek , Jiří Hochman , Kodansha Europe ,.”

“What has made this whole process so special is that above all - especially in terms of the pace of change – it has been determined by the creative and spontaneous activity of the broad mass of the people, with the communists in the vanguard. In this spirit and in accord with the plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, people have acted without the slightest manipulation and without being given commands from above. The role of the party is to recognize people’s understanding, to raise it to a higher plain, to support progressive thinking and acts.”

“Dubcek: Dubcek and Czechoslovakia 1918–1968 by William Shawcross”