Overview of the Karel Kaplan collection

Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff

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Title: Karel Kaplan collection

Date (inclusive): 1946-1977

Collection Number: 77105

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: In Czech, Italian and English

Physical Description: 1 manuscript box (0.4 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Copies of selected minutes, reports and memoranda of the Czechoslovak government and Czechoslovak communist party, relating to Czechoslovak foreign policy at the onset of the Cold War, the communist party purge trials in Czechoslovakia, reaction in Czechoslovakia to the Soviet de-Stalinization campaign, and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Includes some published writings by K. Kaplan based on these documents.

source: Kaplan, Karel, 1928-

Creator: Komunistická strana Československa

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1977.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Karel Kaplan collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Scope and Content of Collection

Copies of selected minutes, reports and memoranda of the Czechoslovak government and Czechoslovak communist party, relating to Czechoslovak foreign policy at the onset of the Cold War, the communist party purge trials in Czechoslovakia, reaction in Czechoslovakia to the Soviet de-Stalinization campaign, and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Includes some published writings by K. Kaplan based on these documents.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Czechoslovakia -- History -- Intervention, 1968

Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1945-1992

Czechoslovakia -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union

Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- Czechoslovakia

Communist party purges

Political crimes and offenses -- Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia -- Foreign relations

Kaplan, Karel, 1928-

box 1

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