Marie Provazníková ranks among the most outstanding figures of modern Czech history, resisting both Nazism and Communism.

Safely out of Czechoslovakia and the reach of the Communist Secret Police, who were about to arrest him on a trumped-up charge of espionage (TIME, June 19), Correspondent Dana Adams Schmidt sat down ...

PRAGUE (AP) — Ludvik Vaculik, an author, journalist and anti-communist dissident whose “Two Thousand Words” manifesto became a key document of the 1968 Prague Spring reform movement that contributed ...

PRAGUE (AP) — Ivan Klíma, a Czech author and anti-communist dissident whose work and life were shaped by Europe’s 20th-century totalitarian regimes, has died. His son Michal told the Czech ČTK news ...