Slánský Trials

	Slánský Trials Slansky or Slánský is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Richard Slansky (1940–1998), American theoretical physicist Rudolf Slánský Rudolf Slánský (31 July 1901 – 3 December 1952) was a leading Czech Communist politician. Holding the post of the party's General Secretary after World War II, he was one of the leading creators and organizers of Communist rule in Czechosl ... (1901–1952), Czech Communist politician * Rudolf Slánský Jr., Czech ambassador to Russia (1993–1996) See also * Slánský trial, 1952 show trial in Czechoslovakia {{surname, Slansky Czech-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Richard Slansky Richard C. Slansky (3 April 1940 – 16 January 1998) was an American theoretical physicist. Slansky received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University and his PhD under Elliot Leader from the University of California, Berkeley. As a post-doc he was at Caltech and then for five years at Yale University, before he joined in 1974 the newly founded theory group for particle physics at Los Alamos National Laboratory under Peter A. Carruthers. In 1989 he became head of the theory group. He was also an adjunct professor at the University of California, Irvine. He died of a brain aneurysm. Slansky worked on Grand Unified Theorys (GUTs). His monograph "Group theory for unified model building" was well known and widely used by GUT theorists. He gained international recognition for his work on the applications of group theory to GUTs, published 85 scientific papers, and served as editor of the journal ''Physics Reports''. In 1983 he was one of the founders of the Santa Fe Institute. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Rudolf Slánský Rudolf Slánský (31 July 1901 – 3 December 1952) was a leading Czech Communist politician. Holding the post of the party's General Secretary after World War II, he was one of the leading creators and organizers of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. After the split between Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia and Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, the latter instigated a wave of "purges" of the respective Communist Party leaderships, to prevent more splits between the Soviet Union and its Central European "satellite" countries. In Czechoslovakia, Slánský was one of 14 leaders arrested in 1951 and put on show trial ''en masse'' in November 1952, charged with high treason. After eight days, 11 of the 14 were convicted and sentenced to death. Slánský was executed five days later. Early life Born at Nezvěstice, now in Plzeň-City District. Slánský was Jewish. He attended secondary school in Plzeň at the Commercial Academy. After the end of World War I, he went to Prague, the cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	List Of Ambassadors Of The Czech Republic To Russia The following is a list of ambassadors of the Czech Republic to Russia. * 1993–1996 Rudolf Slánský Jr. * 1996–2000 Luboš Dobrovský * 2000–2005 Jaroslav Bašta * 2005–2009 Miroslav Kostelka * 2010–2012 Petr Kolář * 2014–2018 Vladimír Remek * 2018–present Vítězslav Pivoňka See also * Czech Republic–Russia relations {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Ambassadors Of The Czech Republic To Russia Czech Republic Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Slánský Trial The Slánský trial (officially English: "Trial of the Leadership of the Anti-State Conspiracy Centre Headed by Rudolf Slánský") was a 1952 antisemitic show trial against fourteen members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), including many high-ranking officials. Several charges, including high treason, were announced against the group on the grounds of allegedly conspiring against the Czechoslovak Republic. General Secretary of the KSČ Rudolf Slánský was the alleged leader of the conspirators. All fourteen defendants were found guilty of crimes that they did not commit. Eleven of them were sentenced to death and executed; the remaining three received life sentences. Background After World War II, Czechoslovakia initially enjoyed limited democracy. This changed with the February 1948 coup, carried out by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia without the direct assistance of the Soviet Union. According to literature scholar Peter Steiner, the one-party Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]