A Revolution in a Revolution: The Secret Police and the Origins of Stalinism in Czechoslovakia

Molly Pucci

DOI:10.1177/0888325417738350

Corpus ID: 158689953

A Revolution in a Revolution: The Secret Police and the Origins of Stalinism in Czechoslovakia

@article{Pucci2018ARI,
  title={A Revolution in a Revolution: The Secret Police and the Origins of Stalinism in Czechoslovakia},
  author={Molly Pucci},
  journal={East European Politics & Societies and Cultures},
  year={2018},
  volume={32},
  pages={22 - 3}
}

Molly Pucci
Published 2018
Political Science
East European Politics & Societies and Cultures

This article examines the origins of the Stalinist secret police force, the StB, in Czechoslovakia between 1945 and 1954. By focusing on the biographies of its officials, it argues that there was not one, but two, secret police forces in this period, each recruited from a different “generation” of local communists. In pointing to the social conflicts and ideological tensions that characterized the communist secret police force in this period, it forwards a new interpretation of the party purges… Expand

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