Zdeněk Mlynář, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Zdeněk Mlynář

Czech politic writer, political analyst and lawyer

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1930

Place of Birth: Vysoké Mýto, Pardubice Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 15-Apr-1997

Profession: writer, politician, political scientist, university teacher

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Zdenek Mlynár (né Müller) (22 June 1930, Vysoké Mýto – 15 April 1997, Vienna) was secretary of Czechoslovak communist party in the years 1968–1970 and an intellectual who went against the grain during a critical time in the development of Eastern European political history.
Mlynár wrote the noteworthy political manifesto Towards a Democratic Political Organization of Society which was released on 5 May 1968, at the height of the Prague Spring.
He also wrote, while in exile in Vienna, an autobiographical account of the Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact invasion that put an end to it in August, 1968.
It was published in an English translation called Nightfrost in Prague: The End of Humane Socialism.