The work under review, by a Slovak scholar now living in Austria, is concerned with far more than the end of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, which is highlighted in its title. Rather, it aims to discuss Czechoslovak developments from 1968 to the collapse of the Communist regime in late 1989. The reviewer argues that although the work provides a considerable amount of new information it concentrates excessively on the regime and dissidents, failing to achieve its stated aim of analyzing the emergence of civil society and the activities of the nonconformist intelligentsia. Moreover, the author has, he argues, uncritically adopted certain claims and failed to avoid factual errors.