General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia

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The General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was the highest-ranking official and de facto leader of the country during its communist era, overseeing party policy and state governance.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf party leadership position
political office
abolishedAsResultOf Velvet Revolution
actualPower supreme political authority in Czechoslovakia
alignedWith Soviet Union
appertainsTo Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
associatedWithEvent Normalization in Czechoslovakia
Prague Spring
Velvet Revolution
authorityOver party policy
state governance
constitutionalStatus not formally head of state in the constitution
controls foreign policy direction
state planning
country Czechoslovakia
countryGoverned Czechoslovakia
deFactoRole de facto leader of Czechoslovakia
head of government
head of state
existedFrom 1948
existedUntil 1989
governmentType authoritarian one-party rule
hierarchicalPosition highest-ranking official of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
influencedBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
jurisdiction Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
language Czech
Slovak
memberOf Warsaw Pact leadership structure
nativeLabel generální tajemník Komunistické strany Československa
officeHolder Alexander Dubček
Antonín Novotný
Gustáv Husák
Klement Gottwald
Miloš Jakeš
politicalIdeology Marxism–Leninism
communism
politicalSystem communist regime
one-party state
powerBase Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
reportsTo Party Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
residence Prague
roleIn communist government of Czechoslovakia
selectionMethod elected by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
subordinateBody Politburo of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
supervises Czechoslovak government
Czechoslovak security apparatus
linked to: Czechoslovak StB
timePeriod communist era in Czechoslovakia

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Gustáv Husák positionHeld General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Antonín Novotný positionHeld First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
subject linked to: Novotný
linked to: General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Gustáv Husák positionHeld General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
subject linked to: Husák
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia nativeLabel generální tajemník Komunistické strany Československa
linked to: General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Miloš Jakeš positionHeld General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
People's democracy in Czechoslovakia deFactoLeaderTitle First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
linked to: General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia