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In the 1960s, as dissent and protest swept through the West, nations of the Warsaw Pact were experimenting with reforms. But hopes for change were crushed by palace coups and, in the case of Czechoslovakia, outright invasion.
 
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| The sexual revolution that made Playboy a household name in the United States
in the 1960s never blossomed in the Soviet Union. But all that changed when communism collapsed. |
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| Reviled by Nikita Khrushchev, a Soviet artist finds ironic redemption in
the West. CNN's Jill Dougherty reports from Moscow.
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| When Soviet tanks put down the Prague Spring in 1968, hopes for "socialism with a human face" were crushed. Can communism ever be rehabilitated?
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TIME: Into Unexplored Terrain
April 4, 1968
Pravda: Indestructible ties of friendship
September 10, 1968
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A faction within the CIA, led by counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton, thought the Prague Spring was a Soviet deception -- a KGB-inspired plot to expose disloyal or weak communists within Czechoslovakia.
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