Gottwald, Klement
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Gottwald, Klement (b. 23 Nov. 1896, d. 14 Mar. 1953). President of Czechoslovakia 1948–53 Born in Dedice (Moravia), he fought in the
Austro-Hungarian army in World War I. He became a founder member of the Czechoslovak Communist Party in 1921. A proponent of its radical wing, he joined its Central Committee in 1925, and became its General Secretary in 1929. He made the party more amenable to
Stalin, but lost a lot of popular support for the party as a result. He spent World War II in Moscow, and returned in 1945 to form a national front government, whose leader he became in 1946. From an initially dominant position, however, support for the Communists was eroded by Soviet refusal to allow Czechoslovak acceptance of
Marshall Aid. Gottwald thus led a
coup in February 1948, which firmly entrenched Communist power. He lacked the backbone to stand up to
Stalin, and agreed to wide-scale purges culminating in the
Slánski trial, which vastly increased Soviet control over the Czechoslovak Communist Party.
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1948: Gottwald Replies
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 2/28/1998; 205 words
; International Herald Tribune 02-28-1998 PRAGUE Communist Prime Minister Klement Gottwald, after watching his twelve new ministers sworn in today [Feb. 27] by President Eduard Benes, assailed the tripartite denunciation...
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Europe: Survival in the East
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/9/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...Milan Kundera's description of Klement Gottwald temporarily borrowing a colleague...a snowstorm in February 1948. Gottwald was about to address a crowd of...Czechoslovakia. Four years later Gottwald's comrade, Vladimir Clementis...
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Judge on Trial.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 7/12/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...appeared beside Commurust Party leader Klement Gottwald in a famous photograph marking...Clementis had placed his own fur cap on Gottwald's head. "Four years later Clementis...photographs as well. Ever since, Gottwald has stood on that balcony alone...
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A very hot summer in Prague. (invasion of Czechoslovakia)
Magazine article from: Russian Life; 8/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...of Joseph Stalin in March 1953, Klement Gottwald, President of the Socialist Republic...Party, fell ill. Days later, Gottwald, who had perpetrated brutal repressions...to the Prague Spring of 1968. Gottwald was replaced as leader of the party...
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Prague, 1948: the February revolution
Magazine article from: New Statesman; 2/18/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...As a result of [Prime Minister Klement] Gottwald's statesmanship, and the spontaneous...score a tactical victory by making Gottwald concede on a single minor issue...accept the resignations, and Gottwald might have to sacrifice his Minister...
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Poland Without Tears: There's more to Poland than death camps. Jewish
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Week; 5/13/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...the following story: In 1948, Klement Gottwald, a Communist leader, steps out...takes off his hat and gives it to Gottwald. The men are photographed. Four...official photos. In the old photo, Gottwald now stands alone. All that remains...
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Czechoslovakia 20 (and 40 and 50) years later.
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 4/4/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...Czechoslovakia. When paramount Party leader Klement Gottwald announced the 1948 coup that ended...standing next to him, lent the older Gottwald his fur hat. In 1952 Clementis...Ever since," writes Kundera, "Gottwald has stood on that balcony alone...
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Signposts to the third way. (Socialism in Eastern Europe) (Beat the Devil) (column)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 4/9/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...a British Labor Party delegation visiting Moscow. Klement Gottwald, Secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, reported...only way forward to the shining city. Later that year Gottwald publicly said the same sort of thing, as did Dimitrov...
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The name game in Eastern Europe. (place name changes in Eastern Europe)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 3/3/1990; 676 words
; ...pasted over the name of Gottwaldova Station (after Klement Gottwald, founder of communist Czechoslovakia), with the...While Czechoslovakia has quietly removed all statues of Gottwald, the Poles tend to prefer more destructive methods...
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10,000 CZECHS RALLY TO RECALL 1968 'SPRING'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/22/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...hallmark of Czechoslovakian communism since the 1948 takeover of a democratic government by Klement Gottwald. The postwar democratic hero displaced by Gottwald, the martyred Jan Masaryk, was not forgotten as the crowd frequently shouted his name...
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Klement Gottwald
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Klement Gottwald Klement Gottwald (1896-1953) was one of the founders of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. He masterminded the coup d' é tat by which the Communists seized power in Czechoslovakia in February 1948 and served as the...
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Gottwald, Klement
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Gottwald, Klement (1896–1953) Czechoslovak politician. He was a founder...becoming General Secretary in 1927. After the MUNICH PACT (1938) Gottwald went to the Soviet Union. After World War II he returned to Czechoslovakia...
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Rudolf Salzmann Slánský
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...sided with the party faction led by Klement Gottwald, helping the latter retain his...the Czech and Slovak lands. With Gottwald and others, he planned the restructuring...only to his long-time comrade, Gottwald. At the Eighth Party Congress...
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Czechoslovakia, Relations with
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...presidency in June and was replaced by Communist Klement Gottwald. Gottwald and CPCz First Secretary Rudolf Slansky then began...he was replaced by Antonin Novotny. Following Gottwald's death in 1953, Antonin Zapotocky became president...
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Zlín
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Republic, in Moravia, on the Dřevnice River. From 1949 to 1993 it was called Gottwaldov in honor of Klement Gottwald , Czechoslovakia's first Communist president. One of the world's largest shoe-manufacturing cities, it is...
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