After Hitler, Before Stalin : Catholics, Communists and Democrats in Slovakia, 1945–1948, by James Ramon Felak
Heimann, Mary (2012) After Hitler, Before Stalin : Catholics, Communists and Democrats in Slovakia, 1945–1948, by James Ramon Felak. [Review] (https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ces087)
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Book review of "After Hitler, before Stalin: catholics, communists and democrats in Slovakia, 1945-1948". In February 1948 there occurred in Czechoslovakia the kind of ‘fateful moment’, in Milan Kundera’s words, ‘that occurs only once or twice a millennium’. This was the moment, afterwards immortalised in photographs, paintings, posters and even postage stamps, that Klement Gottwald, the leader of the Czechoslovak Communist Party (KSČ), ‘stepped out on the balcony of a Baroque palace in Prague to harangue hundreds of citizens massed in the Old Town Square’. The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, having outmanoeuvred its coalition partners in the post-war National Front government, had just seized control over the Cabinet and, consequently, the country. Czechoslovakia, as the immediate result of an internal political crisis rather than Soviet interference or Great Power intervention, fell behind the Iron Curtain.
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Item type: Review ID code: 37187 Dates: DateEvent17 April 2012PublishedSubjects: History General and Old World > History (General) > World War I Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > History Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 30 Jan 2012 16:32 Last modified: 08 Apr 2024 19:47 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/37187