Manuscript collection: This is a collection consisting of news clippings, typescripts, Radio Free Europe reports and analyses, special issues of newspapers printed during the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, and various ephemera, all of which were used by Professor H. Gordon Skilling as source material for his book Czechoslovakia’s Interrupted Revolution (Princeton University Press, 1976).
Book collection: This includes books in Czech, English, French, German, Russian and Slovak; the major intellectual, literary, and political journals and newspapers of the country; and official documents. It also contains Professor Skilling’s published materials, including books, pamphlets, journals and runs of the most important Czech and Slovak newspapers, as well as 1968 issues of Pravda (Moscow) concerning the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.