Jak se likvidovali čeští živnostníci
How Czech Small Businesses Were Eliminated

Summary/Abstract: Marek, Pavel. České živnostnictvo 1945–1960: Likvidace živnostníků, řemeslníků a obchodníků v českých zemích. Brno: Doplněk, 2006, 328 pp. The work under review is the fi rst comprehensive discussion of the end of small businessmen as a social stratum in Communist Czechoslovakia. The author considers in detail the attitudes of the individual political parties to small businesses after 1945 and the systematic efforts of the totalitarian regime from 1949 to 1953 to eliminate them, the temporary letting up of pressure in consequence of economic difficulties in 1954–55, and the repeated campaign against them, which was completed in a year with a thoroughness unparalleled in any other country of the Soviet Bloc.

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