Victorious February? The 1948 Communist Coup Revisited on Czechast
Victorious February? The 1948 Communist Coup Revisited on Czechast
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23:56
Photo: e-Sbírky, Národní muzeum - Muzeum Komenského v Přerově, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED
Seventy-eight years after the communist coup of February 1948, Czechast looks back at the dramatic years when Czechoslovakia stood between democracy and dictatorship. The takeover was not sudden, but carefully prepared between 1945 and 1948. Featuring historian Igor Lukeš, this episode also explores the enduring question: could the country’s fate have been different if the U.S. Army had liberated Prague?
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Czechast, Radio Prague International
Czechast is a regular RPI podcast about Czech and Moravian culture, history, and economy.
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