Description
Antonín Zápotocký was one of the most prominent figures in the communist movement. He was associated with the party from its beginnings and remained at the highest levels of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia until his death in 1957. The public knows many of his faces. A writer building his own image in the Red Glow over Kladno. A prisoner in Sachsenhausen, who himself sent others behind bars in the 1950s. An official who tried to replace Baby Jesus with Grandfather Frost in a fur hat and coat. The Czechoslovak president who became a symbol of the currency reform of 1953. What lies behind the enduring myth of the 'good father of the working class' and what is the real legacy and work of a man associated with the emancipation of the working class, the founding of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, its Bolshevization at the end of the 1920s, the seizure of power, and the subsequent dictatorship? Zápotocký: Too Many Lives is a complex portrait of a personality full of contradictions by historian Michal Stehlík.
Information
Author: Stehlík Michal
Publication date: August 27, 2025
Manufacturer: Nakladatelství JOTA, s.r.o.
Genres: Biographies and autobiographies, Books, Fiction
Type: Hardcover books
ISBN/EAN: 9788076896307