In 1952, hardly a decade after the Holocaust, Communist Czechoslovakia staged one of the post-WWII era’s most blatant acts of state-sponsored anti-Semitism. The Prague Political Purges put on trial fourteen defendants. Eleven of the fourteen were of Jewish origin. All were found guilty, and...

Standard narratives of 1989 in Czechoslovakia maintain that the revolution brought two civic associations into being: the “Czech†Civic Forum (OF) and the “Slovak†Public against Violence (VPN). Thorough examination of relevant archival and newspaper evidence, however,...