Československá diplomacie v únoru a březnu 1948. Příspěvek k mezinárodním aspektům komunistického převratu a k destrukci česko-slovenských demokratických elit stalinistickým režimem

• Authors: Dejmek Jindrich

Title variants

EN

CZECHOSLOVAK DIPLOMACY IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH OF 1948. A CONTRIBUTION ON INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE COMMUNIST COUP D'ÉTAT & THE DESTRUCTION OF CZECH AND SLOVAK DEMOCRATIC ELITES BY THE STALINIST REGIME

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This study deals with the structure and changes in Czechoslovak diplomacy at the time of the Communist coup d'etat and shortly thereafter. The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia to which only a small minority of civil servants declared their allegiance prior to February 1948, succeeded in gaining control of the Ministry without any difficulties as early as the very beginning of the putsch. However, a number of Czechoslovak Ambassadors in Western countries, among others those in the USA, France, Canada and the Latin American countries stood against the new power. The attempt of the permanent delegate at the UN, Jan Papanek to persuade the UN Security Council to consider the international aspects of the putsch was the most significant contribution. Even though he was immediately denounced by the new Communist Government, he helped to raise an awareness in the West of the real circumstances of the coup d'etat.

Keywords

EN

COMMUNIST COUP D’ETAT (FEBRUARY 1948); COMMUNIST REGIME; CZECHOSLOVAK DIPLOMACY (COLD WAR PERIOD); CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 108
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 70-113
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Dejmek Jindrich

• Jindrich Dejmek, Historicky ustav AV CR, v. v. i., Prosecka 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10CZAAAA072728