Karel Bartošek

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Karel Bartošek (born June 30, 1930 in Skuteč , † July 19, 2004 in Paris ) was a Czech historian and publicist who last lived in France.

Life

Karel Bartošek, who was born into a working-class family, joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia at a very young age . During this time he represented the party line and wrote some strongly pro-communist pamphlets. He studied philosophy at Charles University in Prague, where he later became a professor. 1960–1970 he was a member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences . His main focus was on recent Czech history.

Gradually, Bartošek left the positions of Orthodox Communism and was already involved in the preparation of the Prague Spring . After 1968 he was expelled from the party and worked as a laborer, he also spent six months in prison. In 1977 he signed Charter 77 .

In 1982 he left for France, where he worked at the CNRS . Until 1996 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Contemporary History in Paris.

In 1997 he and several other co-authors wrote The Black Book of Communism , which gives an overall balance of 80 years of communism.

Works

  • Přehled československých dějin. Díl 3, 1918–1945 (Overview of Czechoslovak history. Part 3, 1918–1945), Československá akademie věd, Praha 1958,
  • Pražské povstání 1945 (Prague Uprising 1945), Naše vojsko, Praha 1960
  • Independent Historiography in Czechoslovakia, 1985
  • Zpovídání: pražské rozhovory 1978–1982 (Prague Conversations 1978–1982), '68 Publishers, Toronto 1989
  • Stéphane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Panné, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartošek, Jean-Louis Margolin, Rémi Kauffer, Pierre Rigoulot, Pascal Fontaine, Yves Santamaria, Sylvain Boulouque: Le livre noir du communisme - Crimes, terreur, répression. Robert Laffont, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-221-08-204-4 ; Bouquins, 1999, ISBN 9782221088616 ; Pocket, 2009, ISBN 226619187X
  • Stéphane Courtois etc., Joachim Gauck, Ehrhart Neubert: The black book of communism - oppression, crime and terror. (1998) Piper Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-492-04053-5
  • Les Aveux des archives. Prague-Paris-Prague, 1948–1968 (1996)
  • Les sociétés, la guerre et la paix de 1911 à 1946: Europe, Russie puis URSS, Japon, États-Unis, 2003

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personal data
SURNAME Bartošek, Karel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech historian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Skuteč
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 2004
Place of death Paris