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Czechoslovakia in the Khrushchev - Bulganin Era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2019

Edward Taborsky
Edward Taborsky*
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University of Texas
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With Malenkov's demotion and Bulganin's accession to the Premiership in February, 1955, the post-Stalin era in the land of the Soviets entered what seems to be its second stage. Marked by a greatly risen ascendancy of Khrushchev, it has thus far been a stage full of conspicuous and often bewildering happenings. Heavy industry has resumed its position of absolute dominance and to advocate an emphasis upon light industry, as was fashionable in the days of Malenkov's Premiership, again amounts to "right-wing deviationism." "Judas" Tito has become acceptable. The 1943 Teheran atmosphere has been taken out of cold storage and refurbished as the "Geneva spirit."

Type
Research Article
Information
American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , February 1957 , pp. 50 - 65
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1957

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References

1 A number of such reports were brought by people who had visited Czechoslovakia around that time. Cf. for instance Československý přehled (further referred to as Přehled), a monthly digest published by the Czechoslovak Section of the Free Europe Press, New York, II, No. 9, p. 28.

2 Prehled, III, No. 2, p. 31.

3 Zemědělskě noviny, October 19, 1955. English text in The News from behind the Iron Curtain (further referred to as News), IV, No, 12, p. 62,

4 Literární noviny, December 10, 1955.

5 Editorial in Rudé prdvo, November 30, 1955.

6 Prdce, December 9, 1955.

7 Zdravotnicke noviny, October 22, 1955. Cf. Prehled, II, No. 12, p. 62.

8 Mladá fronta, November 13, 1955; Rudé právo, November 20, 1955.

9 Stráž lidu, Olomouc, September 23, 1955. Cf. Přehled, II, No. 10, p. 16.

10 Zemed∼elske noviny, October 19, 1955.

11 Liierdrni noviny, January 7, 1956.

12 Karel Kosik in Literami noviny, December 10, 1955.

13 Prehled, III, No. 2, p. 3.

14 Ibid., p. 1.

15 Ibid., II, No. 12, p. 30.

16 Information, a mimeographed magazine published by the Council of Free Czechoslovakia in Great Britain, No. 2, (February-March, 1956), p. 5.

17 Ibid., p. 2.

18 Cf. Sidney Gruson's report in Mew York Times, May 21, 1956.

19 Cf. full text of the resolution in News, V, No. 7, pp. 42 ff.

20 Cf. News, IV, No. 10, pp. 3-11.

21 In January of 1956 alone Rudé právo published as many as ninety-two attacks on such “meddling in internal Czechoslovak affairs,” Mladajronta—thirty, Práce—thirty-four and the radio—ninety-two. Cf. Přehled, III, No. 2, pp. 19 ff.

22 World Economic Survevfor 7955(New York: United Nations, 1956), p. 192

23 News, V, No. 9, p. 6.

24 Politická ekonomie, December 27, 1954. Cf. Pfehled, III , No. 1, p. 10. Cf. also News, V, No. l , p . 46.

25 Rudé právo, January 14, 1956.

26 News, V, No. 2, p. 42.

27 Ibid., V, No. 4, p. 46.

28 Published in Rudé právo on April 9, 1956.

29 News, V, No. 2, p. 41.

30 Ibid.