KEY WORDS: political psychology, Stalinism, show trials, socialism By Jana Svehlova With the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918 — at the end of World War I — the Allies recognized the efforts of Czech and Slovak leaders to form a Czechoslovak Republic. This new republic’s large educated middle class adopted a constitution based on an American model. Prague’s University…
The Psychological Effects on Children of Czech Jewish Communists after World War II by Jana Svehlova Children of Jewish Communists were interviewed for this project because their parents held top positions in the Communist Party after World War II when those who opposed communism were persecuted. The interviewees’ parents joined the Communist Party before World…
Dear Mrs. Vlahova, Thank you for sending me the speech you intended to deliver at the 1st May public gathering at Letna on behalf of the group Daughters of Political Prisoners. I read it with interest. I appreciate your effort to let our society know about the fate of children of political prisoners whether it is done with the…
The collateral damage done by the terror inflicted by totalitarian governments spreads from their direct victims like ripples on the water. Whether intended on not, the secondary victims may suffer just as much as the primary focus of repressive terror. Understandably, this can have a significant, lifelong effect on secondary and tertiary victims and therefore societies…
We Czechs like to point out that we are a cultured nation, that in times of peril we always drew strength from our past, but now it appears that we are afraid of our own history. Or is it more that we do not know how to teach history in our schools? There is a project STORIES of INJUSTICE, constructed…
Jana Svehlova, PhD. lectures at the University of Ostrava. International Conference at the University of Ostrava about the Show Trials in the 1950s. The persecution of citizens during the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia 1948 – 1960. Photos by Mgr. Michal Kuchta
