Ярослав Петрлик-Салат в российском и чехословацком коммунистическом движении
Yaroslav Petrlík-Salát in the Russian and Czechoslovak communist movement

Summary/Abstract: Based on documents from Russian archives, the article considers Yaroslav Petrlík-Salát’s participation in the revolutionary events in Russia in 1917-1918, especially in establishing Soviet authority in Zadonsk in Voronezh province. Significant attention is paid to the activities of Petrlík-Salát in Moscow as a secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Group and as a chairman of the Central Czechoslovak Bureau of Agitation and Propaganda. The author also analyzes his underground revolutionary activities in 1919-1920 in Czechoslovakia and his work in the Comintern. The author points out the reasons that caused Czechoslovak communist leaders’ and Soviet diplomats’ in Prague to criticize Petrlík-Salát’s activities. As a result of which he had to stay in the USSR at party work.

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