People of the Revolution and the USSR
Political and party leadership
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ)
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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
- Klement Gottwald Klement Gottwald The communist leader who turned Czechoslovakia into a people's democracy through the February 1948 coup
- Rudolf Slánský Rudolf Slánský KSČ General Secretary who organized the February 1948 coup and built Czechoslovakia's people's democracy as its operational architect
- Antonín Josef Novotný Antonín Novotný The Czechoslovak leader whose Stalinist orthodoxy was swept aside by the Prague Spring reform movement
- Josef Smrkovský Josef Smrkovský The purge victim who returned to become the Prague Spring's most eloquent reformer
- Lubomír Štrougal Lubomír Štrougal Husák's right hand who ran the normalization cabinet for eighteen years, then fell backing Gorbachev's perestroika
- Pavel Auersperg Pavel Auersperg The ideology cadre who drafted the Action Programme, then served normalization to the end