Ladislav Mňačko

Ladislav Mňačko (1919-1994) was a Slovak journalist and writer who was initially an ardent supporter of communism but from 1950s became increasingly critical of communist reality. After the invasion of the Czecho-Slovakia by armies of Warsaw pact in 1968, he went into exile and settled in Austria and West Germany until the Velvet revolution of 1989.^[1]

Publications

Political Essays

Agresori (Aggressors), 1968
Siedma noc (The Seventh Night), 1969

Reportages

Kde sa končia prašné cesty (Where dusty roads end), 1962
Oneskorené reportáže (Overdue reports), 1963, serialized reports on the lawlessness of Stalinist period

Novels

Smrť sa volá Engelchen (Death is called Engelchen), 1959, autobiographical book on Slovak 1944 uprising, the partisan struggle at the end of WW II, also made into movie
Ako chutí moc (The taste of power), 1967, exposition of regime's mechanisms
Súdruh Münchhausen (Comrade Münchhausen), 1972, written in exile, critical of Communist regime

References

↑ Wojciech Roszkowski, Jan Kofman (2016). Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Routledge, 2063. ISBN 9781317475934.

[1] Wojciech Roszkowski, Jan Kofman (2016). Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Routledge, 2063. ISBN 9781317475934.

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