Transformations of a President in two acts : From a campaign against bourgeois falsifiers of history 1948-1953

Abstract

The influence of a Soviet campaign against bourgeois falsifiers of history on the development and transformations of the image of President Edvard Beneš in Czechoslovak historiography in the early 1950s through an interpretation of the role of Beneš during the 1938 crisis.

Keywords

• Edvard Beneš
• falsifiers of history
• historiography
• Munich Agreement 1938
• Winston Churchill
• Nikolai Leonidovich Rubinstein
• Leonid Nikolayevich Kutakov
• Boris Yefimovich Stein
• Václav Kopecký
• Zdeněk Fierlinger
• Václav Král
• Klement Gottwald