Czechoslovak Political Prisoners: Life Stories of 5 Male and 5 Female Victims of Stalinism

Első kiadás - This book introduces ten victims of Stalinism who became political prisoners in their own country. Political persecution changed the lives of individuals, families, and perhaps whole generations in many places. Here we deal with the 1950s in former Czechoslovakia. Young Czech authors introduce five male and five female forced laborers in communist prisons and uranium camps. Their life-stories show the everyday life behind the Iron Curtain where sudden captivity for ideological reasons was the daily bread. All the narratives were recorded in 2007-2008 using the method of oral history interview. The first edition was co-financed by the European Union within the programme "Europe for Citizens" 2007-2013. The second edition was published by the Czech nonprofit organization called Političtí vězni.cz (Political Prisoners.eu) established by the authors in 2010. This book is meant as an educational as well as a popularization tool. Witnesses of the past eighty years described what they had gone through in a very authentic way. What and how they tell the authors had one major aim: to share the secrets of those who were meant to be forgotten and thus commemorate the Czechoslovak political prisoners of the initial phase of the socialist dictatorship.- További ismertető: "Belelapozás". - [translated in English by Kamila Nováková and Justin A. Osswald]