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Regional Committee of The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in Brno under the leadership of Otto Šling
Lehnert, Jiří ; Houda, Přemysl (advisor) ; Wohlmuth, Petr (referee)
This thesis deals with the regional functioning of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia at the regional level in the first years after the end of the Second World War, specifically the Regional Committee of the Communist Party in Brno, which at that time was headed by the regional secretary Otto Šling. He was arrested in October 1950 as an enemy of the party and the state. He then became the key figure in the political process with Rudolf Slánský, the Communist Party's general secretary. Otto Šling was a former interbrigadist in the civil war in Spain in the period from 1936 to 1939. During the Second World War, this communist politician of Jewish descent participated in the Czechoslovak anti-nazi resistance movement in the Great Britain. These facts certainly contributed to his arrest in 1950 and his later condemnation and execution in 1952. Otto Šling was one of the first senior officials of the Communist Party to be a target of the policy of seeking "class enemies" in the Communist movement in Czechoslovakia. The inhuman brutal investigation of his person led to the prosecution of the second man in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Rudolf Slánský. However, this work is primarily focused on Šling's activities in the Brno branch of the Communist Party between 1945 and 1950 in connection with his...
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Regional Committee of The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in Brno under the leadership of Otto Šling
Lehnert, Jiří ; Houda, Přemysl (advisor) ; Wohlmuth, Petr (referee)
This thesis deals with the regional functioning of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia at the regional level in the first years after the end of the Second World War, specifically the Regional Committee of the Communist Party in Brno, which at that time was headed by the regional secretary Otto Šling. He was arrested in October 1950 as an enemy of the party and the state. He then became the key figure in the political process with Rudolf Slánský, the Communist Party's general secretary. Otto Šling was a former interbrigadist in the civil war in Spain in the period from 1936 to 1939. During the Second World War, this communist politician of Jewish descent participated in the Czechoslovak anti-nazi resistance movement in the Great Britain. These facts certainly contributed to his arrest in 1950 and his later condemnation and execution in 1952. Otto Šling was one of the first senior officials of the Communist Party to be a target of the policy of seeking "class enemies" in the Communist movement in Czechoslovakia. The inhuman brutal investigation of his person led to the prosecution of the second man in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Rudolf Slánský. However, this work is primarily focused on Šling's activities in the Brno branch of the Communist Party between 1945 and 1950 in connection with his...
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Stalin and Soviet foreign policy in 1945-1947
Lehnert, Jiří ; Litera, Bohuslav (advisor) ; Kolenovská, Daniela (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the analysis of Soviet foreign policy after World War II, especially in 1945-1947. The paper focuses on aspects of Soviet foreign policy against the backdrop of increasing tensions between the powers of the anti-Hitler coalition, especially between the Soviet Union and the United States. This work deals with the Soviet strategy at the conferences of the Great Troika in Yalta and Potsdam in 1945. The Soviet reactions to international development in 1945-1947 are connected with the process of sovereignty of Central and Southeastern Europe. The work is briefly focused on post-war developments in Poland, Bulgaria, Romania and Germany, as well as on the Soviet reaction to the new US foreign policy of containment of Communism through the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan in 1947. The Soviet Union reacted to this situation by establishing of The Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties in the same year. One of the main goals of the thesis is also the effort to capture the role of Soviet leader Josif Vissarionovich Stalin in the foreign policy agenda of the Soviet Union. The thesis also aims to find out, if and how the international situation of this period affected the relations within the Soviet leadership.
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