The parallels between the collapse of Czechoslovak democracy in 1948 and the democratic backsliding occurring in the U.S. are ...

President of Czechoslovakia, chairman and secretary general of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. Of all Western Communists, Gottwald stood closest to new Soviet Boss Malenkov during the funeral ...

today explained why Russia and other Warsaw Pact powers had occupied Czechoslovakia.Tass said Communist Party and government leaders in Prague had asked for "urgent assistance" to meet "the threat ...

In 1948, when the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia seized control of their country, university student and party member Ludvik Jahn began to exchange letters with his friend Marketa, who was away ...

The Slovak parliament passed a law earlier this month labeling the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (existed in 1921-1990) and its regional branch, the Communist Party of Slovakia (set up in 1948 ...

Every Communist party in Europe is now committed to at least one position which conflicts with Soviet foreign policy. When the "Socialist realists" in Moscow art circles attack Picasso, the French ...

Alexander Dubcek, the reformist First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, was arrested the following morning and taken to Moscow. During the tense week that followed, citizens of ...