O jedné pomýlené knize
An Erroneous Book

Summary/Abstract: Petr Placák. Gottwaldovo Československo jako fašistický stát. Prague and Litomyšl: Paseka and Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů, 2015, 189 pp., ISBN 978-80-7432-604-2 and 978-80-87912-32-4. Simply by its title, Peter Placák’s Gottwaldovo Československo jako fašistický stát (Gottwald’s Czechoslovakia as a fascist state) creates, according to the author of this article, the false impression that it is about Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1953, when the Czechoslovak Communist Party was the sole holder of power in the country and its chairman, Klement Gottwald, was President of the Republic. Though some of the author’s conclusions about this period of totalitarian rule in Czechoslovakia might be apposite, to argue that the Czechoslovak regime from 1945 to 1948 was of a fascist nature, when the country was in fact governed by a coalition of parties in the National Front, and the President of the Republic was Edvard Beneš, a critical Press was in existence, and democratic procedures were largely respected, is, according to the author, simply erroneous. The author takes issue with some of Placák’s propositions, and concludes that in the light of the facts the book does not pass muster.

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