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Show Trials in the Countryside – Prosecution of the Top Leaders of the Soviet Republic in Veszprém County

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Nagy S.

West Bohemian Historical Review

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2022

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vol. 12

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issue 2

233-248

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Under the counter-revolutionary regime that followed the Soviet Republic, those who did not flee abroad were prosecuted for “serving” the regime during the proletarian dictatorship. In the one-party system after 1945, which was sympathetic to the Soviet Republic, these procedures were viewed extremely negatively and described as a means of retaliation. A reassessment of the topic has begun in the present day. In this paper, I will evaluate the trials of two leaders of the proletarian dictatorship in Veszprém County, examining whether the proceedings and the verdicts in their cases were in accordance with the law in force, or whether there was a conceptual character to these proceedings.

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Obvinění Ladislava Novomeského z tzv. slovenského buržoazního nacionalismu a jeho sebekritika na jaře 1950

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Doskočil Z.

Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)

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2017

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vol. 25

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issue 2

189-238

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This study looks at the circumstances of the origin of the campaign against so-called Slovak bourgeois nationalism in spring 1950. It primarily focuses on poet and Communist Party of Slovakia figure, Ladislav Novomeský, who became one of its victims. Ideas of the existence of so-called bourgeois nationalism in Slovakia were an entirely deliberate construction with no basis in reality serving only to justify the Communist Party's immediaet needs for power. The study analyses from many perspectives the (ir)relevant arguments made in the allegations against Novomeský. It also looks in detail at how the poet's self-criticism, repeated a number of times, gradually deepened. Escalating attacks and repeated calls for party discipline forced Novomeský to resign from the use of rational arguments and instead mechanically confess to his guilt. His willingness to concede was helped significantly by the fact that so-called Slovak bourgeois nationalism was criticised in spring 1950 merely as an ideological deviation, and not as a criminal act.

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Hon na čarodějnice v Šumperku 17. století a stalinský monstrproces v Praze na počátku padesátých let 20. století

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Lukes I.

Dvacáté století - The Twentieth Century

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2013

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vol. 5

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issue 2

9-26

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The study seeks to identify similarities between the 17th century prosecution of witches in northern Moravia and the Stalinist trials that took place in post‑war Czechoslovakia. It compares the methods used to bring about the arrest and execution of Father Christoph Alois Lauttner (1622–1685) with the purge that led to the demise of the Communist boss Rudolf Slánský (1901–1952). The main argument is that the Soviet advisors and officers of the StB followed procedures that were remarkably similar with the methods employed by the Inquisitor Boblig von Edelstadt (c. 1612–1698), who found inspiration in the manual on witch trials, Malleus Maleficarum, published in 1486.

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Studie je zaměřena na analýzu paralel mezi hony na čarodějnice na severní Moravě v 17. století a stalinskými procesy v poválečné východní Evropě. Nabízí srovnání metod, které vedly k upálení děkana Kryštofa Aloise Lauttnera (1622–1685) s čistkami, v jejichž rámci byl popraven bývalý generální tajemník KSČ Rudolf Slánský (1901–1952). Hlavním argumentem studie je, že sovětští poradci a důstojnici StB, kteří předsedali stalinským čistkám v poválečném Československu, se v zásadních věcech chovali podobně jako inkvizitor Boblig z Edelstadtu (asi 1612–1698), jenž předsedal zatčení, vyšetřování, soudu a popravě děkana Lauttnera. Základní postupy, které lze vystopovat v případu Rudolfa Slánského a děkana Lauttnera jsou odvozeny z návodu na čarodějnické procesy, jejž obsahovala vlivná kniha „Kladivo na čarodějnice“ (Malleus Maleficarum), vydaná v roce 1486.

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Show Trials in the Countryside – Prosecution of the Top Leaders of the Soviet Republic in Veszprém County

Obvinění Ladislava Novomeského z tzv. slovenského buržoazního nacionalismu a jeho sebekritika na jaře 1950

Hon na čarodějnice v Šumperku 17. století a stalinský monstrproces v Praze na počátku padesátých let 20. století