Klucz do sowietyzacji Czechosłowacji. Polityka i propaganda Edvarda Beneša w okresie II wojny światowej oraz publikacja ministra rządu emigracyjnego Huberta Ripki o sojuszu ze Związkiem Sowieckim
The Key to the Sovietization of Czechoslovakia. Edvard Beneš’ Politics and Propaganda during the Second World War and the Publication of the Minister of the Government of Exile, Hubert Ripka, on the Alliance with the Soviet Union

Summary/Abstract: The study presents political thinking and practical policy of the Czechoslovak exile President Edvard Beneš and his pro-Soviet-oriented collaborators in the years 1940–1948. His policy enabled the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia to participate in political power in 1945 and later, in 1948, to seize unlimited power. It deals with Beneš’s authoritarian exile government and the management of anti-Nazi resistance, with Beneš’s socialist and pro-Soviet orientation and his influence on the post-war organization of political relations in the restored Czechoslovakia. In the text, post-war authoritative-totalitarian system of the so-called popular democracy is presented, which was introduced in Czechoslovakia in May 1945 and which lasted till February 1948. This post-war political system was the precursor of the unlimited communist power and its policy of the Sovietization of the state and society; it was revolutionally establihed by the coalition of political parties that was propagandistically called the National Front, eliminated right-wing (right center) parties and adopted radical leftist so-called Košice government program prepared by the Communists in order to subject the state to Bolshevism. At the same time, the text presents and comments on the book of Beneš’s propagandist collaborator and minister of the exile government Hubert Ripka, entitled “East and West” and published in Czech and English in London in 1944. This book deals with Beneš’s foreign policy and promotes its pro-Soviet orientation.

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