Persecution of the Czech Minority in Ukraine at the Time of the Great Purge
Journal: Central European Papers
Year: 2017

In its introduction, the study recalls the course of Czech emigration to Ukraine and the formation of the local Czech minority from the mid-19 th century until the end of 1930s. Afterwards, it depicts the course of political persecution of the Czechs from the civil war to the mid-1930s and mentions the changes in Soviet national policy. It characterizes the course of the Great Purge in the years 1937-1938 on a national scale and its particularities in Ukraine, describes the genesis of the repres