Flashcards: Communist Party of Czechoslovakia politicians

Egon Erwin Kisch (29 April 1885, Prague – 31 March 1948, Prague) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak writer and journalist, who wrote in German.

Ota Šik (11 September 1919 – 22 August 2004) was a Czech economist and politician.

Evžen Rošický (15 October 1914 Olomouc - 25 June 1942 Prague) was a Czech athlete and journalist.

Miloslav Ransdorf (15 February 1953 – 22 January 2016) was a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left party group in the European Parliament.

Zdeněk Mlynář (Müller) (22 June 1930, Vysoké Mýto – 15 April 1997, Vienna) was secretary of Czechoslovak communist party in the years 1968–1970 and an intellectual who went against the grain during a critical time in the development of Eastern European political history.

Ivan Olbracht (born Kamil Zeman) (6 January 1882, Semily, Bohemia – 20 December 1952, Prague) was a Czech writer, journalist and translator of German prose.

Oskar Krejčí (born 13 July 1948 in Prague) is a Czech political scientist, the author of approximately twenty books and more than thousand articles in the area of political science.

Jaroslav Handlíř (1888 - 1942) was a Czech politician and soldier who was a leader in both Czechoslovak and international communism and later joined the Social Democratic Party of Czechoslovakia.

Ivan Sviták (10 October 1925 in Hranice na Moravě – 20 October 1994 in Prague) was a Czech philosopher, critic, and poet who ranked among Europe's most prominent proponents of Marxist humanism.

RSDr. Vasil Biľak (11 August 1917 – 6 February 2014) was a Slovak Communist leader of Rusyn origin.

Miroslav Štěpán (5 August 1945 – 23 March 2014) was a Czechoslovak politician.

Jiří Wolker (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈvolkr̩]) (29 March 1900 – 3 January 1924) was a Czech poet, journalist and playwright.

František Drtikol (3 March 1883, Příbram – 13 January 1961, Prague) was a Czech photographer of international renown.

Jan Drda (April 4, 1915, Příbram – November 28, 1970, Dobříš) was a Czech prose writer and playwright.

Bohumír Šmeral (25 October 1880 in Třebíč, Margraviate of Moravia – 8 May 1941 in Moscow) was a Czech politician, leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party, and one of founders of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

Jiří Kolář (24 September 1914, Protivín – 11 August 2002, Prague) was a Czech poet, writer, painter and translator.

Emil Zátopek (Czech pronunciation: [ˈɛmɪl ˈzaːtopɛk] ; 19 September 1922 – 22 November 2000) was a Czechoslovak long-distance runner best known for winning three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

Countess Klára Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka (Kája; January 18, 1898 – April 12, 1941) was a Hungarian-born noblewoman, who later became a Czechoslovak Communist and revolutionist.

Vladimír Šmeral (16 October 1903 in Drásov near Tišnov – 15 March 1982 in Praha) was a Czech actor.

Záviš Kalandra (10 November 1902 - 27 June 1950) was a Czechoslovak historian and theorist of literature executed by communists on charges of conspiracy and treason.

Milada Emmerová (born 4 November 1944) is a Czech doctor, politician and former Minister of Health for the Czech Republic.

Karol Śliwka (Polish pronunciation: [ˈkarɔl ˈɕlifka]; 13 March 1894, Bystřice, Austrian Silesia - 19 March 1943, Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp) was a Polish communist politician from Zaolzie region in the First Czechoslovak Republic.

Major Augustin Schramm (March 2, 1907, Liberec – May 27, 1948, Prague) was an ethnic German Czechoslovak communist professional and NKVD agent.

Pavel Zářecký (born 21 April 1940) is a Czech politician and lawyer.

Karl Volk (1 April 1896 – March 1961) was a Communist politician, journalist and German Resistance fighter against Nazism.

Ivan Knotek (born 26 August 1936) is a Slovak politician who served as Politburo member and prime minister from 1988 to 1989 of the Slovak Socialist Republic.

Prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Kárník, DrSc.

Artur London (1 February 1915 – 8 November 1986) was a Czechoslovak communist politician and co-defendant in the Slánský Trial.

Josef Smrkovský (26 February 1911 – 15 January 1974) was a Czechoslovak politician and a member of the Communist Party reform wing during the 1968 Prague Spring.

Gustaw Przeczek (Polish pronunciation: [ˈɡustaf ˈpʂɛt͡ʂɛk]; 30 May 1913 – 21 February 1974) was a Polish writer, poet, teacher and activist from the Zaolzie region of Cieszyn Silesia.

Pavel Dostál (February 25, 1943 – July 24, 2005) was a Minister of Culture in the Czech Republic, known for his dynamic personality and his advocacy of social justice.

Norbert Frýd (born Norbert Fried) (21 April 1913 – 18 March 1976) was a Czech writer, journalist and diplomat.

Bohuslav Chňoupek (August 10, 1925, Petržalka (now part of Bratislava) – June 28, 2004, Prague) was a Czechoslovak politician, journalist and writer.

Jan Keller is a Czech politician, who since 2014, has been a Member of the European Parliament, representing the Czech Republic.

František Pitra (born 13 November 1932) was the Prime Minister of the Czech Socialist Republic (then part of Czechoslovakia) from October 11, 1988 through February 6, 1990.

JUDr. Pavel Rychetský (born 17 August 1943) is the third and current President (or Chief Justice) of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic.

Henryk Jasiczek (2 March 1919 – 8 December 1976) was a Polish journalist, poet, writer, and activist from the Zaolzie region.

Valtr Komarek, Dr.

Daniela Kovářová (born 17 November 1964) is a Czech politician.

Otto Šling (24 August 1912 - 3 December 1952) was born in Nová Cerekev, a village in south Bohemia, then part of the Austrian Empire.

Přemysl Kočí (1 June 1917 – 15 January 2003) was a Czech operatic baritone, actor, music educator, stage director, theater manager and official of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

Václav Vacek (11 September 1877 – 18 January 1960) was a Czech writer, and a communist politician.

Milán Václavík (28 March 1928 – 2007) was a Slovak-origin Czechoslovak military officer with the rank of colonel general.

Peter Colotka (born 10 January 1925) is a Slovak academic, lawyer and politician.

František Kriegel (10 April 1908 — 3 December 1979) was a Czechoslovak politician, physician, and a member of the Communist Party reform wing of Prague Spring (1968).

Vojtěch Mynář is a Czech politician, who from 2012 until 2014, was a Member of the European Parliament, representing the Czech Republic.

Richard Falbr (born on 29 September 1940 in Chester) is a Czech politician andMember of the European Parliament with the Czech Social Democratic Party, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.

Milan Horálek (November 27, 1931 in Rájec-Jestřebí – November 13, 2012) was a Czech economist and politician.

Petr Pithart (born 2 January 1941 in Kladno) is a Czech politician, lawyer and political scientist.

General Alexej Čepička (August 18, 1910, Kroměříž – September 30, 1990, Dobříš) was a Czechoslovak communist politician.

Rudolf Margolius (August 31, 1913, Prague – December 3, 1952, Prague) was Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, Czechoslovakia (1949–1952), and a co-defendant in the Slánský trial in November 1952.

Vladimír "Vlado" Clementis (20 September 1902 Tisovec - 3 December 1952 Prague) was a Slovak minister, politician, lawyer, publicist, literary critic, author and a prominent member of the Czechoslovak Communist Party.

Bedřich Reicin (29 September 1911 in Plzeň – 3 December 1952 in Pankrác Prison in Prague) was a Czechoslovak army officer and politician.

Luboš Dobrovský (born Luboš Hamerschlag, 3 February 1932) is a Czech journalist and politician of Jewish origin, former Czechoslovak Minister of Defence.

Josef Frank (25 February 1909, Prostejov - 3 December 1952, Prague) was a Czechoslovakian Communist politician.