People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Antonín Janoušek Antonín Janoušek
Czech journalist who chaired the Revolutionary Governing Council of the Slovak Soviet Republic in 1919
Social movements and organizing · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP)
1877–1941
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Antonín Zápotocký Antonín Zápotocký
Czechoslovak Communist who led the trade-union central council, became prime minister after February 1948 and president in 1953
Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia state institutions
1884–1957
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Zdeněk Fierlinger Zdeněk Fierlinger
Pro-Soviet Social Democrat and first post-liberation premier who sided with the Communists in 1948 and merged his party into theirs
Government and administration · Czechoslovakia state institutions
1891–1976
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Klement Gottwald Klement Gottwald
The communist leader who turned Czechoslovakia into a people's democracy through the February 1948 coup
Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia state institutions
1896–1953
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Lubomír Štrougal Lubomír Štrougal
Husák's right hand who ran the normalization cabinet for eighteen years, then fell backing Gorbachev's perestroika
Government and administration · Czechoslovakia state institutions
1924–2023
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Pavel Auersperg Pavel Auersperg
The ideology cadre who drafted the Action Programme, then served normalization to the end
Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia state institutions
1926–1987
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Milan Kundera Milan Kundera
The Czech novelist who insisted the Prague Spring was a universal attempt to reconcile socialism with freedom
Literature and arts · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ)
1929–2023