Alice Lovejoy

Alice Lovejoy is author of the award-winning book Army Film and the Avant Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military (2015) and, most recently, Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War (2025). She is a former editor at Film Comment and a professor of film and media studies at the University of Minnesota.

End of the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. A Russian tank patrols in Wenselas Square as locals walk by. August 1968.

This Minnesota Winter Is the New Prague Spring This Minnesota Winter Is the New Prague Spring

I’ve studied Czechoslovakia in 1968. I live in Minneapolis. The similarities between the historic invasion and the current ICE “surge” are scary.

Feb 28, 2026 / Alice Lovejoy

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