Jiří Pelikán
Illustration — Portrait of Jiří Pelikán Jiří Pelikán (7 February 1923 – 26 June 1999) was a Czech journalist and politician. Jiří Pelikán was born in Olomouc, he was a member of the National Assembly in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and later a member of the European Parliament for the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). In 1939, Pelikán joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) in exile and took part in the Czech resistance to Nazi Germany occupation during World War II. From 1953 to 1963, he assumed leading functions in the KSČ-led International Union of Students.
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Jiří Pelikán
- Born
- 1923 · Olomouc.
- Died
- 1999 · Rome.
- Nationality
- Czechoslovakia · Czech Republic
- Occupation
- politician · writer · journalist · editing staff · tv/radio personnel · political scientist
- Honours
- Czech Medal of Merit and 1st class
- Languages
- Czech
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Illustration — Portrait of Jiří Pelikán Jiří Pelikán (7 February 1923 – 26 June 1999) was a Czech journalist and politician. Jiří Pelikán was born in Olomouc, he was a member of the National Assembly in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and later a member of the European Parliament for the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). In 1939, Pelikán joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) in exile and took part in the Czech resistance to Nazi Germany occupation during World War II. From 1953 to 1963, he assumed leading functions in the KSČ-led International Union of Students.
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Born at Olomouc in 1923, died in Rome in 1999.
The recorded working language is Czech. Places of work recorded in the authority are Strasbourg and Brussels. Positions recorded include Member of the European Parliament and director. Work by Jiří Pelikán is recorded in the collections of Czech Exile Collection at Libri Prohibiti, Václav Havel Library, Scriptum.cz and Ferdinand Peroutka Collection at the Museum of Czech Literature. Distinctions recorded are Czech Medal of Merit, 1st class.
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- F. Caccamo, Jiří Pelikán a jeho cesta socialismem 20. století, Prague 2008,
- "Inventario del Fondo Jiri Pelikan", in: Quaderni dell'Archivio storico 8, Rome 2003
- Jiří Pelikán, Io, esule indigesto. Il Pci e la lezione del ’68 di Praga, ed. Antonio Carioti, Milan 1998,
- Jiří Pelikán (ed.), Feux croisés sur le stalinisme: par des socialistes, les dissidents, des eurocommunistes, Paris, Revue politique et parlementaire, 1980,
- Jiří Pelikán, Il fuoco di Praga. Per un socialismo diverso, Milan, Feltrinelli, 1978
- Jiří Pelikán, Socialist Opposition in Eastern Europe: The Czechoslovak Example, Palgrave Macmillan, 1976,
- Jiří Pelikán (ed.), Civil and Academic Freedom in the USSR and Eastern Europe, Nottingham: Spokesman Books, 1975,
- Jiří Pelikán, S'ils me tuent, Paris, Grasset, 1975,
- Jiří Pelikán (ed.), The Czechoslovak Political Trials, 1950-54: Suppressed Report of the Dubcek Government's Commission of Inquiry, 1968, Macdonald, 1971, (2nd ed. Stanford University Press, 1975, )
- Jiří Pelikán (transl. by G. Theiner and D. Viney), The Secret Vysocany Congress: Proceedings and Documents of the Extraordinary Fourteenth Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, 22 August 1968, A. Lane, 1971,
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