KSČ NA PODKARPATSKÉ RUSI V PRVNÍ POLOVINĚ 30. LET 20. STOLETÍ
THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN THE SUBCARPATHIAN RUTHENIA IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1930S

Summary/Abstract: The Czechoslovak Communist Party in Subcarpathian Ruthenia went through a crisis between the parliamentary elections 1929 and 1935. The electoral defeat in 1929 in this strategic region stirred a displeasure directly in the leadership of the Comintern and, undoubtedly, also within many party and state institutions of the Soviet Union. The Party was plagued by numerous informants reporting to Czecho-slovak state authorities. On the other hand, Subcarpathian Ruthenia was a fitting place to support communist parties in the neighbouring countries where the communist movements were being unscrupulously supressed. The party could profit from the zeal of many loyal and convinced members and functionaries escalated by the declining economic situation as a result of the world economy depression. While marches of unemployed and numerous deputations could be perceived as a vehement and active way of enforcing the party social and political programme and in cases of attempts to penetrate by means of informants or otherwise loyal persons to the state administration as a way to disrupt the monopoly of the government coalition parties over the state, some other actions and propaganda slogans went beyond political struggle and attacked the very unity and integrity of the state. Some fights together with theses on the Czech occupation and national oppression led to the threat of abolition over the party, which compelled it to prepare to move into illegality. The party only managed to step out of its half-legal and sectarian captivation after the changes in the official policy as a result of VII Congress of Comintern and the implementation of its resolutions into the local party policy.

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