Personnel changes in the elected bodies of the Local/Municipal National Committee in Kroměříž at the turning points of the communist regime (1948, 1968, 1989)
In the ‘life’ of non-democratic political regimes, their beginnings (associated with the seizure and stabilization of power), as well as their endings and often also major internal crises, are inevitably accompanied by personnel changes at all levels of power. The representative bodies during the 41 years of communist rule in Czechoslovakia were no exception to this rule, having gone through three periods of significant personnel changes (after 1948, after 1968 and after 1989) during these four decades. The presented text deals with this topic at the local level, using the example of the Municipal National Committee in Kroměříž.
Keywords: Kroměříž, Municipal National Committee, Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, 1948–1989, purges
Published: June 1, 2025 Show citation
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY NC 4.0), which permits non-comercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original publication is properly cited. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.