Josef Guttmann a Osudy Střední Evropy Mezi Hitlerem a Stalinem
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translation: Josef Guttmann and the fate of Central Europe between Hitler and Stalin
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Two lives, two names, two perspectives on Soviet communism and its post-war expansion into Eastern Europe. They seem neatly separate, yet they are united by one man's experience and his quest to understand the hopes and tragedies of the 20th century. In the early 1930s, the left-wing intellectual Josef Guttmann became a member of the leadership of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. He broke with the party because of the strategy of the Comintern, which helped Hitler to power in 1933. A sharp critic of Stalin's dictatorship and his foreign policy became a prominent left-wing opponent. He left Czechoslovakia at the end of 1938 and three years later settled in New York, where he worked under a pseudonym as a leading expert on events in the Soviet bloc and a critic of totalitarianism. He was also the author of the first articles on the anti-Semitic nature of the trial of Rudolf Slansky.
