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Břetislav Hůla
Břetislav Hůla (30 March 1894 – 2 April 1964) was a Czech Communist politician, newspaper editor, and translator. He was a leading cadre of Comintern in 1923–24. A National Labor Confederation member, he joined the Bolshevik party in 1917, and was responsible for organizing its Czechoslovakia, Czech section after 1918. A delegate to the Second Comintern Congress (1920), he was excluded from Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1925, ostensibly for rightist leanings. After withdrawing from politics he worked as a translator from Russian and German. In 1947 he was commissioned by publisher Adolf Synek to collect and publish the writing of his one time friend Jaroslav Hašek, a task he continued also after the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état, 1948 Communist coup, now on behalf of the Ministry of Information. External links Hůla, Břetislav, 1894-1964 {{DEFAULTSORT:Hula, Bretislav 1894 births 1964 deaths Czechoslovak Comintern people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comintern
The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International, was a Soviet-controlled international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism. The Comintern resolved at its Second Congress to "struggle by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and the creation of an international Soviet republic as a transition stage to the complete abolition of the state". The Comintern was preceded by the 1916 dissolution of the Second International. The Comintern held seven World Congresses in Moscow between 1919 and 1935. During that period, it also conducted thirteen Enlarged Plenums of its governing Executive Committee, which had much the same function as the somewhat larger and more grandiose Congresses. Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, dissolved the Comintern in 1943 to avoid antagonizing his allies in the later years of World War II, the United States and the United Kingdom. It w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
