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Letters from Prague : 1947–1957 / Eleanor Wheeler; ed. by Doubravka Olšáková.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Rethinking the Cold War ; 10Publisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (XVIII, 392 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110690408
  • 9783110690545
  • 9783110690507
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.8437073 23/eng/20221026
LOC classification:
  • D843 .W452 2022
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction by the Editor -- Eleanor Wheeler: Letters from Prague -- Introduction -- 1947 -- 1948 -- 1949 -- 1950 -- 1951 -- 1952 -- 1953 -- 1954 -- 1955 -- 1956 -- 1957 -- Postface -- A Note From the Editor -- List of Pictures -- Index
Summary: Eleanor M. Wheeler, a correspondent for the Religious News Service, wrote letters from Prague to her friends in the USA from 1947 to 1957. Her husband, George Shaw Wheeler, was a colonel in the US Army and the chief of the de-Nazification section of the Manpower Division of the Office of the Military Government (OMGUS). While in Germany in 1946, Wheeler’s contract was not renewed, mainly due to suspicions that he was disloyal to the US government and had connections to the communist movement. Afterwards the entire family moved to Prague, where in 1951 they applied for political asylum. The correspondence depicts ten years of life in Czechoslovakia—from the rise of communism through high Stalinism to the de-Stalinization of the country—from the perspective of pro-Communist–minded Americans. Thematically, the correspondence covers a wide range of political, cultural, and social topics, including the Cold War, the Korean War, the role of Christians in mediating dialogue between East and West, McCarthyism, and topics focused on the internal politics of Czechoslovakia.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction by the Editor -- Eleanor Wheeler: Letters from Prague -- Introduction -- 1947 -- 1948 -- 1949 -- 1950 -- 1951 -- 1952 -- 1953 -- 1954 -- 1955 -- 1956 -- 1957 -- Postface -- A Note From the Editor -- List of Pictures -- Index

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Eleanor M. Wheeler, a correspondent for the Religious News Service, wrote letters from Prague to her friends in the USA from 1947 to 1957. Her husband, George Shaw Wheeler, was a colonel in the US Army and the chief of the de-Nazification section of the Manpower Division of the Office of the Military Government (OMGUS). While in Germany in 1946, Wheeler’s contract was not renewed, mainly due to suspicions that he was disloyal to the US government and had connections to the communist movement. Afterwards the entire family moved to Prague, where in 1951 they applied for political asylum. The correspondence depicts ten years of life in Czechoslovakia—from the rise of communism through high Stalinism to the de-Stalinization of the country—from the perspective of pro-Communist–minded Americans. Thematically, the correspondence covers a wide range of political, cultural, and social topics, including the Cold War, the Korean War, the role of Christians in mediating dialogue between East and West, McCarthyism, and topics focused on the internal politics of Czechoslovakia.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023)