Karel Kaplan

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Karel Kaplan (born August 28, 1928 in Horní Jelení ) is a Czech historian and publicist. His main focus is the history of Czechoslovakia after the Second World War and he is considered a good expert in this area.

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Kaplan, who as a young man did an apprenticeship in the Baťa shoe factory in Zlín and then worked there, took on his first political tasks in the regional apparatus of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ); After studying history and social sciences , he worked as a consultant for history in the ideological department of the KSČ party executive committee from 1960 to 1964, and after his dismissal for political reasons in the Historical Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences . At the center of his interest lay the political processes and repression in Czechoslovakia, although - unlike many other historians - he was also able to access the party's secret archives.

During the Prague Spring he resumed his work in the KSČ and was active, among other things, in the Commission for the Rehabilitation of Unjustly Convicted People. He also participated in the drawing up of the party's program of action. For this activity he was dismissed from the party in 1970 and worked as a worker, in 1972 he was temporarily arrested.

In 1976 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany and worked again as a historian, where he worked as a collaborator for the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies , Collegium Carolinum , Voice of America , BBC , Deutsche Welle and Radio Free Europe .

After the fall of the Eastern Bloc , he returned to Czechoslovakia in 1990, where he worked in the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. In 2008 he received an award for his services to the state in the field of science.

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Czech and German publications
  • Anatomy of a ruling communist party (Part 1, The General Secretary; Part 2, The Politburo (Central Committee Presidium); Part 3, The Central Committee Secretariat; Part 4, Apparatus and Apparatschiks), Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies, Cologne 1983, 1984 and 1985
  • The fateful alliance: infiltration, conformity, etc. Annihilation d. Czechoslovak Social Democracy 1944-1954 , POL-Verlag, Wuppertal 1984, ISBN 3-9800905-0-7
  • StB o sobě: výpověď vyšetřovatele Bohumila Doubka , Úřad dokumentace a vyšetřování zločinů komunismu PČR, Praha 2002, ISBN 80-902885-9-6
  • Nekrvavá revoluce , Sixty-Eight Publishers, Toronto 1985, ISBN 0-88781-157-4
  • K politickým procesům v Československu 1948-1954: dokumentace komise ÚV KSČ pro rehabilitaci 1968 , Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, Praha 1994, ISBN 80-85270-28-5
  • Komunistický režim a politické procesy v Československu , Barrister & Principal, Brno 2001, ISBN 80-85947-75-7
  • Dekrety prezidenta republiky 1940-1945: documenty , Ústav pro soudobé dějiny Akademie věd České republiky, Brno 2002, ISBN 80-7285-012-1
  • Kronika komunistického Československa. Klement Gottwald and Rudolf Slánský , Společnost pro odbornou literaturu - Barrister & Principal, Brno 2009, ISBN 978-80-87029-53-4
translated publications
  • La democracia triunfó: El desarrollo de la democracia popular checoslovaca 1945-1948 , Orbis, Praha 1963
  • Dans les Archives du Comité Central: Trente ans de secrets du bloc soviétique , A. Michel, Paris 1978, ISBN 978-2-226-00711-7
  • 1952 Procès politiques à Prague , Editions complexe, Paris 1980, ISBN 2-87027-057-7
  • I centralkommitténs hemliga arkiv: Sanningen om Slánskýprocessen , Ordfronts Förl., Stockholm 1982
  • The Communist Party in Power: A Profile of Party Politics in Czechoslovakia , Westview Press, Boulder / London 1987, ISBN 0-86531-823-9
  • The Short March: The Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia 1945-1948 , 1987, ISBN 0-312-72209-5
  • Report on the Murder of the General Secretary , Ohio State University Press, Columbus 1990, ISBN 0-8142-0477-5
  • Csehoszlovákia igazi arca 1945-1948 , Kalligram, (Poszony) Bratislava 1993, ISBN 80-7149-014-8

swell

  • Portal domaci.ihned.cz
  • Short biography of the POL publishing house, Wuppertal

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personal data
SURNAME Chaplain, Karel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech historian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Horní Jelení