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GlossaryCommunist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ)

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 1884–1957
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 1891–1976
Václav Nosek Václav Nosek Czechoslovak interior minister whose purge of non-communist police in February 1948 triggered the government crisis and communist takeover Security, intelligence and policing · Czechoslovakia 1892–1955
Ludvík Svoboda Ludvík Svoboda A national hero of two world wars who became an unlikely last bastion of the Prague Spring Military command · Czechoslovakia 1895–1979
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 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
Jaroslav Seifert Jaroslav Seifert A poet who confronted censorship and power at each moment of reform Literature and arts · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1901–1986
Vladimír Clementis Vladimír Clementis Slovak Communist who succeeded Jan Masaryk as foreign minister and was executed after the Slánský trial of 1952 Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia 1902–1952
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 1904–1975
Gustáv Husák Gustáv Husák Czechoslovakia's longest-serving leader, who crushed the Prague Spring and built 'normalization' Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia 1913–1991
Vasil Biľak Vasiľ Biľak The party ideology secretary who signed the letter inviting Soviet tanks into his own country Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1917–2014
Alois Indra Alois Indra The KSČ hardliner who signed the letter inviting Soviet intervention to end the Prague Spring Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1921–1990
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 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 1926–1987
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