Ladislav Novomeský v osidlech Státní bezpečnosti (1951-1954)

• Authors: Zdeněk Doskočil

Title variants

EN

Ladislav Novomeský in the snares of the secret state police (1951-1954)

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This study looks at the life story of poet and Communist Party of Slovakia official, Ladislav Novomeský between 1951 and 1954 when he was systematically investigated in secret police prison. The reason for his political persecution was a fabricated charge of what was termed Slovak bourgeois nationalism, as a result of which he was first stripped of his political function in spring 1950, and then arrested in February 1951. In the so-called “anti-state conspiracy centred around Rudolf Slanský trial” (the Slánsky show trial), Novomeský had to testify against Vladimír Clementis. Following another round of interrogations, he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the so-called Slovak Bourgeois Nationalists Trial (Gustáv Husák and others) in April 1954.

Keywords

EN

history; 20th century; Czechoslovakia; Czech-Slovak relations; Ladislav Novomeský; Slovak bourgeois nationalism; Communist Party of Slovakia; political trials

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 209-250
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zdeněk  Doskočil

• Moderní dějiny, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic