Prověrky členů KSČ v éře stalinismu. Plošné prověřování členů strany neplnilo cíle, které do něj její vedení vkládalo
Checks upon Members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia during the Stalinist Era. Mass Screening of Party Members Failed to Live up to the Leadership’s Expectations

Summary/Abstract: More than two million people joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia after May 1945, and in the summer of 1948 every third adult citizen of Czechoslovakia held a party card. However, the party leadership was aware that the situation where almost everyone interested was approved as a member went against the Leninist ideal of a capable revolutionary party. The would-be solution in the form of the mass screening of party members led to a slight reduction in membership, yet failed to bring the desired purge of the party.

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