Prison and exile. Ladislav Novomeský in the Stalinist and post-Stalinist era
Author:
Zdeněk Doskočil
Year of publication:
2020
Publisher:
Historický ústav / Nakladatelství Lidové noviny
ISBN:
978-80-7286-337-2; 978-80-7422-774-5
The Slovak poet, journalist and politician Ladislav Novomeský belonged to the circle of Marxist intellectuals who were cruelly affected by the Stalinist repressions in the 1950s. The monograph emphasizes the reasons for Novomeský's accusation of the so-called Slovak bourgeois nationalism, his investigation, conviction and imprisonment, it also deals with the poet's long-term forced stay in Prague associated with banning publishing and surviving on the fringes of society, his later political rehabilitation and gradual return to public events. It depicts Novomeský's political and human portrait and reflects on the motives of the left-wing creator, who dedicated his whole life to the communist idea and paid for it after February 1948 by persecution, loss of personal integrity and deep feelings of guilt, reawakened and disappointed by hopes and destroyed health, but yet he never broke with the Communist Party and its ideology.
