Background: Czechoslovakia — People | Cyber-Lenin

Background: Czechoslovakia

13 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Stanislav Čeček Stanislav Čeček Commander of the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia Military command · Czechoslovakia 1886–1930
Radola Gajda Radola Gajda A legion commander who carried battlefield success into White politics Military command · Czechoslovakia 1892–1948
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
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
Jan Patočka Jan Patočka A phenomenologist who turned care for truth into civic action Scholarship and theory 1907–1977
Josef Pavel Josef Pavel Prague Spring interior minister whose security reforms were undermined by KGB subversion and internal betrayal Security, intelligence and policing · Czechoslovakia 1908–1973
František Kriegel František Kriegel The only Prague Spring leader who refused to sign the Moscow Protocol Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1908–1979
Jiří Hájek Jiří Hájek A diplomat who turned international law into a language of civic rights Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia 1913–1993
Karel Kosík Karel Kosík A non-dogmatic Marxist who reflected on the Prague Spring Scholarship and theory 1926–2003
Ludvík Vaculík Ludvík Vaculík The Czech writer who declared 'not one human question has been solved in twenty years' and authored the 'Two Thousand Words' manifesto Literature and arts · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1926–2015
Zdeněk Mlynář Zdeněk Mlynář A reform communist who sought to democratize socialism Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1930–1997
Vojtech Mastny Vojtěch Mastný A historian who opened the Cold War archives Scholarship and theory 1936–
Jan Pauer Jan Pauer The historian who interpreted the Prague Spring between the tanks and the memory wars Scholarship and theory 1950–