assumed undisputed control over the government of Czechoslovakia through a coup d'état. It marked the beginning of four decades of the party's rule in the country...

satellite state in the Soviet sphere of interest. Following the coup d'état of February 1948, when the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia seized power with...

In February 1948, the Communist Party seized full power in a coup d'état. Despite the country's official name remaining the Czechoslovak Republic until...

A coup d'état, often abbreviated to coup, is the overthrow of a lawful government through illegal means. If force or violence are not involved, such an...

After its election victory in 1946, it seized power in the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état and established a one-party state allied with the Soviet Union...

in Hungary a year earlier. Two years later, the Communists staged a coup d'etat and forced President Edvard Beneš to appoint a Communist-dominated government...

Soviet control of the Eastern Bloc was first tested by the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état and the Tito–Stalin split over the direction of the People's...

state media), causing Ceaușescu to angrily denounce the revolution as a coup d'état. Petrișor took the couple to an agricultural centre near Târgoviște,...

and Czechoslovak independence was re-established after the country's liberation at the end of the war. Following the Soviet-backed coup of 1948, Czechoslovakia...

years before the democratic government was overthrown in the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état. "28. říjen 1945: Zahájení činnosti Prozatímního Národního shromáždění"...

and father of Jana Krejcarová. After the Communist-organized 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état he went to exile to the United Kingdom. He died in London. v...

or political assassination. In February 1948, the Communists took power in the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état, and Edvard Beneš inaugurated a new cabinet...

This is a list of coups d'état and coup attempts by country, listed in chronological order. A coup is an attempt to illegally overthrow the government...

increasingly pro-Communist commanders of the Czechoslovak Air Force. After the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état Janoušek was court-martialled, sentenced to...

to stage a coup d'état that would put Communists—who were then two tiny groups—into power. However, King Michael had already organised a coup, in which...

the creation of the First Czechoslovak Republic Gatter’s sons took over the company. After the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état, the company was nationalized...

approximately 400 people worked at their factory. After the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état, the company was nationalized. In 1991, the company was returned...

Indochina War Eastern Bloc Comecon Cominform Greek Civil War 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état Berlin Blockade Korean War Sino-Soviet Treaty Tito–Stalin split...

Communists. As Interior Minister, Nosek was a central figure in the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'etat. When a majority of the cabinet voted to order Nosek to stop...

mandates of 69 seats in Slovak National Council. After the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état, the party was disbanded. Visegrad Group - Czech Republic, Hungary...

but after the Tito–Stalin split expelled Yugoslavia from the group in June 1948, the seat was moved to Bucharest, Romania. Officially, Yugoslavia was expelled...

Plan aid. In Czechoslovakia, that required a Soviet-backed Czechoslovak coup d'état of 1948, the brutality of which shocked Western powers more than any...

returned to Czechoslovakia to serve in the Czechoslovak Air Force. After the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état the new Communist Party government would not...

"robbed" the second time in 1993 (the first time being after the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état), – currently houses a Hard Rock Cafe, before that a.o. a crystal...

Democratic Republic Zhou Enlai – Premier of the People's Republic of China Czechoslovak leader Gottwald died shortly after attending Stalin's funeral, on 14...

Spitfires were Czechoslovakia's primary fighter aircraft until the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état, after which the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia purged air...

Party hardliners staged an attempted coup in Moscow August that year. Following the events of the failed 1991 coup, many republics of the USSR declared...

From the Communist coup d'état in February 1948 to the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Czechoslovakia was ruled by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Czech:...

as did the Baltic states. Before the creation of the Warsaw Pact, the Czechoslovak leadership, fearful of a rearmed Germany, sought to create a security...

to five years of exile in 1943 to Vorkuta and was then sentenced again in 1948 to five years in labor camps near Inta. Alliluyeva was first married in 1944...