"Spirits that I've cited...?" Vladimír Clementis (1902–1952) : The Political Biography of a Czechoslovak Communist.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- The Drama of Vladimír Clementis The Tragic Life of a Communist -- X. Introduction -- X. 1 Vladimír Clementis - victim of Stalinism or gravedigger of democracy? -- X. 2 Analytical framework and conceptual matrix -- X. 3 Method, key issues, research interest -- X. 3. 1 Method: contextual biography -- X. 3. 2 Key issues -- X. 3. 2. 1 Czechoslovakism and the Czechoslovak Nation -- X. 3. 2. 2 Antisemitism -- X. 3. 3 Research questions -- I. Childhood, Education and Pre-War Political Activities (1902-1939) -- I. 1 Childhood in Tisovec -- I. 2. DAV and the Davists -- I. 2. 1 The Themes of DAV - Applying Marxism-Leninism to Slovakia -- I. 2. 1. 1 The Question of the Czechoslovak Nation (1924) -- I. 2. 1. 2 Agrarian Thought as New 'Ideology' (1924) -- I. 2. 1. 3 The Electoral Defeat of the Communists (1929) -- I. 2. 1. 4 The Trips to the Soviet Union (1929, 1930) -- I. 2. 1. 5 The Anti-Soviet Press Campaign (1935) -- I. 3 Black Whitsuntide in Košuty (1931) -- I. 4 Member of Parliament (1935-1938) -- I. 4. 1 On National Security (1936) -- I. 4. 2 Lex Sidor - on Slovak Antisemitism (1937) -- I. 4. 3 A Farewell to President Masaryk (1937) -- I. 4. 4 On Slovak Autonomy (1938) -- I. 4. 5 Munich 1938 - The End of the Republic -- II. In Exile (1939-1945) -- II. 1 From France to Great Britain (1939-1940) -- II. 2 In Great Britain -- II. 2. 1 Lída's Living Conditions -- II. 2. 2 A Political Decision -- II. 3 The BBC Broadcasts (1941-1945) -- II. 3. 1 Slovakia's Declaration of War on America (1941) -- II. 3. 2 At the Grave of Vančura (1942) -- II. 3. 3 Hitler, Hlinka - One Line! (1942) -- II. 3. 4 The Expulsion of the Czechs from the Slovak State (1943) -- II. 3. 5 The Slovak Workers in Germany (1943-1944) -- II. 3. 6 To the Slovak Women (1944) -- II. 3. 7 The Attempt on Hitler's Life (1944).

II. 3. 8 The Slovak National Uprising (1944) -- II. 3. 9 About the Future (1945) -- II. 3. 10 Banská Bystrica - Liberated! (1945) -- III. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1945-1950) -- III. 1 Assistant Secretary of State (1945-1948) -- III. 1. 1 The Communist Coup d'Etat (25 February 1948) -- III. 1. 2 The Yugoslav-Soviet Split (29 June 1948) -- III. 1. 3 Czechoslovakia's International Relations (1945) -- III. 1. 4 On Money (1946) -- III. 1. 5 Czechoslovakia's New Foreign Policy (1947) -- III. 1. 6 On Germany and the Marshall Plan (1947) -- III. 1. 7 The Slovak-Hungarian Transfer of Population (1945-1949) -- III. 2 Minister of Foreign Affairs (1948-1950) -- III. 2. 1 The Mysterious Death of Jan Masaryk (1948) -- III. 2. 2 Operation Balak (1948) -- III. 2. 3 The UN Summit in New York (1949) -- III. 3 The End (1950-1952) -- III. 3. 1 Arrest and Interrogation (1951-1952) -- III. 3. 2 Show Trial and Execution (1952) -- III. 3. 3 Rehabilitation (1963-1968) -- Conclusion - and a few questions -- Oral History Interview with Mr Antonín Liehm (*1924) -- Appendix -- Clementis in Data -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Index.

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