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A Jazz Spy? The Music Enthusiast Jiří Gans from České Budějovice in the Gear of Power

Publication |
2009

Abstract

The study and edition of documents is focused on music enthusiast Jiří Gans. In 1977 he was found guilty and sentenced to 15 years of prison for alleged espionage.

The case study and edition analyses the specific form of the repression of political opposition in communist Czechoslovakia.