Czechast: journalist Jaromír Marek shares the story of Interhelpo, a forgotten utopian project that took Czech and Slovak ...

It aims to map the increasing restrictions on freedom of movement that were imposed following the February 1948 coup in which the Czechoslovak Communist Party seized power in Czechoslovakia.

Despite the brutal violence and crimes, the Communist Party still considered the Warsaw Pact armies to be Czechoslovakia’s allies. So the court condemned my father for “being against the ...

Upon assuming the Czechoslovak leadership in January by becoming first secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubcek quickly declared his intention to push ahead with ...

today explained why Russia and other Warsaw Pact powers had occupied Czechoslovakia.Tass said Communist Party and government leaders in Prague had asked for "urgent assistance" to meet "the threat ...

Kundera was born on April 1, 1929, in the town of Brno, in what was then Czechoslovakia. His father was a famous pianist. He studied in Prague, where he joined the Communist Party, translated the ...