Milos Jakes, the Communist Party leader swept from power in the former Czechoslovakia during the Velvet Revolution of 1989, has died. He was 97. The Communist Party confirmed his death late ...

In the face of Czechoslovakia’s steadily sagging economy and its even limper national morale, Communist Party Boss Gustav Husak last week decided that the time was ripe for a good pep talk.

It began to manifest more intensely when, at the start of the 1960s, Czechoslovakia unexpectedly and incomprehensibly, for the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) leadership, found itself on ...

Communist Czechoslovakia’s new leaders published detailed blueprints last week for their own “road to Socialism.” Debated for weeks in camera, the action program drawn up by new Party Boss ...

This month marks the 70th anniversary of the infamous Slánský trial, a 1952 antisemitic show trial against Communist Party members in Czechoslovakia. Ten defendants of Jewish origin, including ...

1918 - Republic of Czechoslovakia proclaimed ... Communists come to power 1946 - Czechoslovak Communist Party (CPCz) leader Klement Gottwald becomes prime minister in power-sharing government ...

His death was confirmed to media by former Communist Party lawmaker Jiri Dolejs on ... following the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Warsaw Pact troops invaded in August 1968 to ...

Every Communist party in Europe is now committed to at least one position which conflicts with Soviet foreign policy. When the "Socialist realists" in Moscow art circles attack Picasso, the French ...

Later Czech proposals for a Tripartite Monarchy ... 1946 - Czechoslovak Communist Party (CPCz) leader Klement Gottwald becomes prime minister in power-sharing government following national elections.

On April 17, 1969, Slovak politician Gustáv Husák was elected to lead the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ). The April plenum marked the definitive end of the Prague ...

when tanks and troops tamped down on any open dissidence to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. As a point of entry to that history, Mádl introduces the fictional character of Tomáš ...