Original title: První krůčky k únoru. Moskevská jednání v březnu 1945
Translated title: First steps towards February 1948. The Moscow negotiations of the Czechoslovak exile in March 1945
Authors: Čuchna, Matěj ; Václavů, Lubor (advisor) ; Míšková, Alena (referee)
Document type: Bachelor's theses
Year: 2011
Language: cze
Abstract: [cze] [eng]
Tématem této práce jsou moskevská jednání československé politické reprezentace v Moskvě v březnu 1945, konkrétněji jednání prezidenta Beneše s představiteli Sovětského svazu a vnitropolitická jednání československých politiků z londýnského a moskevského exilu o programu, struktuře a složení první poválečné vlády, uspořádání státu a jeho mezinárodněpolitické orientaci. Kromě průběhu a bezprostředního výsledku moskevských jednání práce zasazuje téma do širšího historického kontextu a představuje události a skutečnosti, které vedly k moskevským jednáním a definovaly jejich podobu, a rovněž jejich dlouhodobé následky. This thesis concentrates on the subject of the Moscow negotiations in March 1939 and preceeding and following events. The Moscow negotiations are considered to be the starting point of the Communist seizure of power in Czechoslovakia, leading to their moment of final triumph in February 1948. Near the very end of the Second World War, members of the Czechoslovak exile government, together with president Edvard Beneš, traveled to Moscow in order to discuss several political, economical and military issues with the Soviets. The issue of highest importance, however, were talks between the democratic Czechoslovak representatives from London and Czechoslovak Communists who have taken refuge in Moscow aftet the beginning of the war. It is not an exaggeration to say that everything was at stake. Literally, these talks were to define the long-term future of Czechoslovakia and, indeed, sadly, they had. While the democrats, arrived unprecedently unprepaired, the Communists had already elaborated a complete government program (later passed, with only minor changes, as the Košice Government Program), unsurprisingly very leftist and pro-Soviet. In military terms, the Communists gained strategic initiative and forced the democrats into a passive role with a very little potential for making any significant changes to the...
Keywords: 1945; Beneš; February 1948; politics; Stalin; the first government of the National Front of the Czechs and the Slovaks; the Košice Government Program; the Moscow negotitations; the Third republic; 1945; Beneš; Košický vládní program; moskevská jednání; politika; první vláda Národní fronty Čechů a Slováků; Stalin; únor 1948

Institution: Charles University Faculties (theses) (web)
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Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/39114

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