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By birth A–Z List Cards

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk The philosopher-president who organized the Czechoslovak Legion from exile and signed the Penza Agreement with the Bolsheviks Political and party leadership 1850–1937
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
Petr Zenkl Petr Zenkl National Socialist leader who led the ministers’ resignation in February 1948 and headed the exile Council of Free Czechoslovakia Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia state institutions 1884–1975
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
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
Rudolf Slánský Rudolf Slánský KSČ General Secretary who organized the February 1948 coup and built Czechoslovakia's people's democracy as its operational architect Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1901–1952
Antonín Josef Novotný Antonín Novotný The Czechoslovak leader whose Stalinist orthodoxy was swept aside by the Prague Spring reform movement Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia state institutions 1904–1975
Josef Smrkovský Josef Smrkovský The purge victim who returned to become the Prague Spring's most eloquent reformer Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia state institutions 1911–1974
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
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