From the fateful days of the Munich crisis in September 1938 to the
final coup in February 1948, the Communists gradually infiltrated
Czechoslovakia. This is the record of that tragic conquest, written
by the former head of Jan Masaryk's Cabinet in the Czechoslovak
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Korbel reveals the gradual erosion
of all areas of the nation's life-political, economic, cultural,
military, social-by Communist techniques. He traces the hopeless
attempts at coexistence on the part of such democratic statesmen as
Edvard Benes and Jan Masaryk, as they tried to negotiate with such
Communists as Klement Gottwald and Stalin himself. The campaign of
infiltration followed a preconceived plan, first capturing the mind
through persuasion and protestations of nationalism, freedom,
democracy; then moving inexorably from the local to the national
level, in labor unions, political organizations, channels of
communication, the police, the army, the government. This is a
moving and objective record of an important event in modern
history, and a revealing case study of the Communist capture of a
country. Mr. Korbel has based his account on interviews with
participants, on unpublished memoirs and documents, on Communist
materials published after their seizure of power, and on his own
firsthand knowledge and experience. Originally published in 1959.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
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1905.
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