Prague Trials - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Polish 1968 Political Crisis: Encyclopedia Ii - Polish 1968 Political Crisis - Background
In 1967, during the time leading up to and during the Six Day War, the Polish public was generally sympathetic towards Israel. This contr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Polish 1968 Political Crisis: Encyclopedia Ii - Polish 1968 Political Crisis - Background
In 1967, during the time leading up to and during the Six Day War, the Polish public was generally sympathetic towards Israel. A popular ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doctors' Plot: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctors' Plot - The Second Holocaust Controversy
Some people think that the scenario of the "Doctors' plot" was reminiscent of the previous Stalin purges of the late 1930s, and the plan ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1952: Encyclopedia - 1952
1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). 1952 - Events. January 8 - West Germany has 8 mill...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rootless Cosmopolitan: Encyclopedia Ii - Rootless Cosmopolitan - Background
Towards the end and immediately after World War II, the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) grew increasingly influential to the post-Hol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionism And Racism: Encyclopedia - Zionism And Racism
Zionism maintains that the Jewish people constitute a nation and are entitled to a national homeland. Its focus is on governing the Land ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doctors' Plot: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctors' Plot - Background
In the course of the Cold War and the State of Israel allying with the West, the Soviet regime eliminated the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rootless Cosmopolitan: Encyclopedia Ii - Rootless Cosmopolitan - About One Antipatriotic Group Of Theater Critics
The state-wide campaign was set out by an article appeared in Pravda on January 28, 1949 entitled About one antipatriotic group of theate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doctors' Plot: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctors' Plot - An Article In Pravda
On January 13, 1953, some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors in the USSR were accused of taking part in a vast plot to poison ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doctors' Plot: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctors' Plot - Arrests
Initially, thirty-seven were arrested, but the number quickly grew into hundreds. Scores of Soviet Jews were promptly dismissed from thei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doctors' Plot: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctors' Plot - Stalin's Death And The Consequences
After Stalin's death on March 5, the new leadership admitted that the charges had been entirely invented by Stalin and his cohorts. The c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Polish 1968 Political Crisis: Encyclopedia Ii - Polish 1968 Political Crisis - Persecution And The March 1968 Events
Dariusz Stola of the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, called the events that followed in 1967 and 1968 as an a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Communist Party Of Czechoslovakia: Encyclopedia Ii - Communist Party Of Czechoslovakia - Organization
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia - National Level. KSČ organization was based on the Leninist concept of democratic centralism, which...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Egon Erwin Kisch: Encyclopedia Ii - Egon Erwin Kisch - Biography
Egon Erwin Kisch - Prague. Kisch was born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Emp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lavrenty Beria: Encyclopedia Ii - Lavrenty Beria - Rise To Power
Beria was born, the son of a peasant, in Merkheuli, near Sukhumi in the Abkhazian region of Georgia. He was educated at a technical schoo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionism And Racism: Encyclopedia Ii - Zionism And Racism - History
Zionism and racism - The demographic change. Despite the history of violence against the Jews, there is no evidence of any interruption...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gheorghe Gheorghiu-dej: Encyclopedia Ii - Gheorghe Gheorghiu-dej - In Power
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej - Under Soviet directives. Soviet influence in Romania under Joseph Stalin nonetheless favored Gheorghiu-Dej, la...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kibbutz: Encyclopedia Ii - Kibbutz - History
Kibbutz - Origins. Conditions were hard for all subjects of the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but they were...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Romanian Communist Party: Encyclopedia Ii - Romanian Communist Party - History
Romanian Communist Party - Early history. The party was founded in 1921 when the Communist faction won control of Romania's Social-Demo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rudolf Slánský: Encyclopedia Ii - Rudolf Slánský - Early Life
Slánský received his formative education in Plzeň at the Commercial Academy. After the end of World War I, he went to Prague, where he...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1952: Encyclopedia Ii - 1952 - Events
1952 - January. January 8 - West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders. January 24 - Sudden heavy snowfall in Algeria. Jan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - Ancient Animosity Towards Jews
3rd century BCE: Manetho, a Hellenistic Egyptian chronicler and priest, alleges that Moses was not a Jew, but an Egyptian renegade priest...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionism And Racism: Encyclopedia Ii - Zionism And Racism - Un Resolution 3379
Main article: United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 The Soviet Union began the "Zionism is racism" campaign in the United Natio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rudolf Slánský: Encyclopedia Ii - Rudolf Slánský - Power In The Postwar Period
In 1945, after World War II, Slánský was part of the meetings between Czechoslovaks who had been exiled to London and Moscow to begin f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rudolf Slánský: Encyclopedia Ii - Rudolf Slánský - The Trials
In November 1951 Slánský and other 13 people were arrested and charged with being Titoists, Trotskyites, and Zionists. Party rhetoric a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lavrenty Beria: Encyclopedia Ii - Lavrenty Beria - Allegations Against Beria
Since Beria's death many more accusations have been made against him. These include allegations that he raped numerous women, and that he...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionism And Racism: Encyclopedia Ii - Zionism And Racism - Viewed As Anti-semitism
According to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Jews were at one time the "Chosen people" of God; in Judaism, this is still believed to be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionism And Racism: Encyclopedia Ii - Zionism And Racism - Soviet Influence
Political Zionism was officially stamped out for the entire history of the Soviet Union as a form of bourgeois nationalism. As early as 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 16th Century
1505 Ten České Budějovice Jews are tortured and executed for killing a Christian girl; later, on deathbed, shepherd confesses to fabri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gheorghe Gheorghiu-dej: Encyclopedia Ii - Gheorghe Gheorghiu-dej - Early Life
Gheorghiu-Dej joined the Communist Party of Romania in 1930. A railway electrician by trade, he was arrested due to taking part in the Gr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lavrenty Beria: Encyclopedia Ii - Lavrenty Beria - Beria's Fall
Accounts of Beria's fall vary considerably. According to the most recent accounts Khrushchev convened a meeting of the Praesidium on June...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lavrenty Beria: Encyclopedia Ii - Lavrenty Beria - Allegations Against Beria
Although Beria was formally convicted for being a British spy, the Communist Leadership has early on sought to spice up the charges with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Romanian Communist Party: Encyclopedia Ii - Romanian Communist Party - Membership
During its underground years the membership of the party was quite small, less than 1,000 people. Members were largely drawn from ethnic ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Communist Party Of Czechoslovakia: Encyclopedia Ii - Communist Party Of Czechoslovakia - The Party As The Ruling Elite
Whatever the social composition of the party, it effectively functioned as a ruling elite--a group not known for self-abnegation. As an e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Communist Party Of Czechoslovakia: Encyclopedia Ii - Communist Party Of Czechoslovakia - History
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia - 1921 - 1945. Formally founded in 1921, it was one of some twenty political parties that competed wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Romanian Communist Party: Encyclopedia Ii - Romanian Communist Party - Organization
Officially, as with other Communist parties, the supreme body of the Romanian Communist Party and its predecessors was the party congress...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Communist Party Of Czechoslovakia: Encyclopedia Ii - Communist Party Of Czechoslovakia - Membership
Since assuming power in 1948, the KSČ had one of the largest per capita membership rolls in the communist world (11 percent of the popul...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lavrenty Beria: Encyclopedia Ii - Lavrenty Beria - Allegations Against Beria
Although Beria was formally convicted for being a British spy, the Communist Leadership early on sought to spice up the charges with info...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 20th Century
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Roman Catholic Church adhered to a distinction between "good anti-Semitism" and "bad anti-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 8th Century
717 Caliph Omar II introduces discriminatory regulations against the dhimmi, among them for Jews to wear a special yellow garb. 722 Byzan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 9th Century
807 Abbassid Caliph Harun al-Rashid orders all Jews in the Calipate to wear a yellow belt, with Christians to wear a blue one. 820 After ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 11th Century
1008-1013 Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah issues severe restrictions against Jews in the Land of Israel. All Jews are forced to wear...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 12th Century
1107 Moroccan Almoravid ruler Yoseph Ibn Tashfin orders all Moroccan Jews to convert or leave. 1143 150 Jews killed in Ham, France. 1144 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 7th Century
610-620 Visigothic Hispania After many of his anti-Jewish edicts were ignored, king Sisebur prohibits Judaism. Those not baptized fled. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 6th Century
519 Ravenna, Italy. After the local synagogues were burned down by the local mob, Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great orders the town to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1952: Encyclopedia Ii - 1952 - Births
1952 - January. January 11 - Ben Crenshaw, American golfer January 11 - Lee Ritenour, jazz guitarist and composer January 20 - Paul St...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1952: Encyclopedia Ii - 1952 - May
1952 - June. June 17 - Krystyna Skarbek, Polish-born British agent in World War II (b. 1915) 1952 - July. July 26 - Eva Peron, Arg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 4th Century
306 The Synod of Elvira bans intermarriage between Christians and Jews. Other social intercourses, such as eating together, are also forb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 5th Century
415 Jews are accused of ritual murder during Purim. The Church confiscates or burns synagogues in Antioch, Magona, Alexandria. Bishop (St...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 13th Century
13th century Germany. Appearance of Judensau: obscene and dehumanizing imagery of Jews, ranging from etchings to Cathedral ceilings. Its ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 14th Century
1305 Philip IV of France seizes all Jewish property (except the clothes they wear) and expels them from France (approx. 100,000). His suc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 21st Century
2003 October 16. The Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohammed draws standing ovation at the 57-member Organization of the Islamic C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kibbutz: Encyclopedia Ii - Kibbutz - About
Kibbutz - Ideology of the kibbutz movement. The members of the First Aliya had been religious, but the members of the Second Aliya, of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lavrenty Beria: Encyclopedia Ii - Lavrenty Beria - Beria At The Nkvd
In August 1938 Stalin brought Beria to Moscow as deputy head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the ministry which...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lavrenty Beria: Encyclopedia Ii - Lavrenty Beria - Postwar Politics
With Stalin nearing 70, the postwar years were dominated by a concealed struggle for the succession among his lieutenants. At the end of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 19th Century
1805 Massacre of Jews in Algeria. 1815 Pope Pius VII reestablishes the ghetto in Rome after the defeat of Napoleon. 1819 A series of anti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 18th Century
1711 Johann Andreas Eisenmenger writes his Entdecktes Judenthum ("Judaism Unmasked"), a work denouncing Judaism and which had a formative...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 15th Century
1411 Oppressive legislation against Jews in Spain as an outcome of the preaching of the Dominican friar Vicente Ferrer. 1413 Disputation ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 17th Century
1603 Frei Diogo Da Assumpacao, a partly Jewish friar who embraced Judaism, burned alive in Lisbon. 1608 The Jesuit order forbids admissio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lavrenty Beria: Encyclopedia Ii - Lavrenty Beria - After Stalin
On March 5, 1953 Stalin died four days after collapsing during the night following a dinner with Beria and other Soviet leaders. The poli...   » Read the article