Komunisté před soudem. K některým aspektům politických procesů v Československu na počátku 50. let
Communists in court – on several aspects of czecHoslovakia’s political trials of tHe early 1950s

Summary/Abstract: The trial of representatives of the socalled anti-state conspiratorial centre of Rudolf Slánský came to a conclusion on 27 November 1952. Eleven of the 14 charged received death sentences, which were carried out several days later. It was the largest such trial of Communist Party officials in the Soviet zone of influence at that time. This paper looks at several issues that arise in connection with the trial – anti-Semitism, reverberations from the conflict with Tito’s Yugoslavia, Soviet reality, and the internal problems of both the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and the country itself.

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