Záviš Kalandra

Victims of the Great Purge (16 person items)

"Záviš Kalandra (10 November 1902 - 27 June 1950) was a Czechoslovak historian and theorist of literature executed by communists on charges of conspiracy and treason. He was born in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm. He studied philosophy at the Charles University in Prague and then in Berlin. In 1923 he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, but he was expelled due to his criticism of Stalin's policy. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1939 and imprisoned until 1945 in various concentration ca"