Nástin struktury organizací KSČ v bezpečnostním aparátu v letech 1945–1968
he outline of the structure of the CPC organisation in the security apparatus, 1945–1968

Summary/Abstract: The security services were one of the most important buttresses of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia’s (CPC) system of power. Cooperation between them and the CPC and control of them was intended to safeguard the party organisation within the security apparatus, alongside the relevant division of the Central Committee of the CPC. The study traces the development of the organisation of the Communist Party at the Ministry of the Interior/Ministry of National Security in the period 1945–1969. Communist organisations functioned illicitly in the National Security Corps until 1948 and the following five years saw the formation and organisation of political work in the security services. This was greatly complicated by the arrest of leading security officials in the early 1950s. It wasn’t until the mid 1950s that the structure of party organisations settled and leadership became more professional. In the 1960s they became consolidated and their activities formalised. In 1968 party organisations led the reform process at the Ministry of the Interior. At the start of normalisation the party structure in the security apparatus underwent major transformations in terms of organisation and personnel and the revived CPC organisation later led extensive purges at the Ministry. Until 1989 it remained a solid bulwark of the Communist Party’s leadership.

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