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Historical analysis uncovers the experiences of imprisoned Communist women in Czechoslovakia, highlighting gender bias.
The Slánský trial which took place in Prague in November 1952 was the most notorious post-war show trial in the former Eastern bloc. This article for the first time brings to light the experiences of Communist women who were imprisoned and condemned in the closely-related trials which accompanied it. Drawing on Czechoslovak prison and secret police records, private memoirs, correspondence and trial records, the article uncovers and analyses interrogation techniques applied to female comrades and the gender assumptions behind them. Unacknowledged sexism within the Czechoslovak Communist Party undermined the women's relationship with their Party and helps to explain the silence surrounding Communist women prisoners in Czechoslovakia.
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