Report On Murder Of General Secretary - Hardcover

Kaplan, Karel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1850432112 ISBN 13: 9781850432111

Publisher: I.B. Tauris, 1990

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Czech

From Publishers Weekly:

After Stalin's anti-Yugoslav campaign against Tito failed, Moscow focused on Czechoslovakia as the weakest link in the Soviet postwar front. In 1952, a show trial ended with the hangings of 11 Czech Communist Party officials, including general-secretary Rudolph Slansky; all of the convicted had been falsely accused of treason, espionage or sabotage. Working from archival documents, Czech historian Kaplan, who emigrated to the West in the 1970s, presents a chilling, painstaking account of Stalin's ruthless charade and of Czech president Klement Gottwald's complicity in the judicial murders. We are shown that anti-Semitism partially motivated the trial, and that the courtroom proceedings were staged from confessions obtained under torture to dress rehearsals of prosecutors and "witnesses" and even coaching of the alleged victims. Photos.
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About this edition

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 1850432112
• ISBN 13: 9781850432111
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320