Rudé právo
{{Short description|Defunct Czechoslovak newspaper}}
{{Distinguish|Právo}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2014}}
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{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Rudé právo
| logo = File:LogoRudePravo.svg
| image = První číslo RP.gif
| caption = First edition of Rudé právo from 21 September 1920
| motto = "Proletáři všech zemí, spojte se!"
| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Broadsheet
| owners = Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
| publisher =
| political = Communist
| headquarters = Prague, Czechoslovakia
| foundation = {{Start date|1920|9|21}}
| ceased publication = September 1995
| editor =
| language = Czech
| ISSN = 0032-6569
| website =
| publishing_country = Czechoslovakia
| image_alt = border
| alt =
| founders =
}}
Rudé právo (Czech for Red Justice or The Red Right) was the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.{{Cite web|first=Milan|last=Smid|title=Czech Republic|url=http://www2.mirovni-institut.si/media_ownership/pdf/czech%20republic.pdf|publisher=Mirovni Institut|access-date=18 November 2014|archive-date=4 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804063014/http://www2.mirovni-institut.si/media_ownership/pdf/czech%20republic.pdf|url-status=dead}}
History and profile
Rudé právo was founded in 1920 when the party was splitting from the social democrats and their older daily Právo lidu ({{Lit|People's Right}}). During the 1920s and 1930s it was often censored and even temporarily stopped. In autumn 1938, the party was abolished and during the German occupation and World War II that came soon afterwards the newspaper became an underground mimeographed pamphlet. Following the end of the war Josef Frolík became the chief administrator of the paper.{{Cite book|first1=Richard C. S.|last1=Trahair|first2=Robert L.|last2=Miller|title=Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations|date=2012|publisher=Enigma Books|location=New York|isbn=978-1-929631-75-9|page=104|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VNSMrps8mpcC}} After the communist take-over in 1948 it became the leading newspaper in the country, the Czechoslovak equivalent of the Soviet Union's Pravda, highly propagandistic and sometimes obedient to the government. Its Slovak equivalent in Slovakia was Pravda.
Following the Velvet Revolution, Rudé právo was privatised in 1989.{{Cite web|first=Daniela|last=Gawrecká|title=Who Watches the Watchmen?|url=http://www.soc.cas.cz/sites/default/files/soubory/who_watches_the_watchmen.pdf|publisher=Institute of Sociology|access-date=17 February 2015|location=Prague|format=Discussion Paper|date=November 2013}} In addition, some editors founded a new daily, Právo, unaffiliated with the party but taking advantage of the existing reader base.
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.digitalniknihovna.cz/cbvk/periodical/uuid:4eac74b0-e92c-11dc-9fa1-000d606f5dc6 Digital archive (1945–1950)] {{In lang|cs}}
- [http://archiv.ucl.cas.cz/index.php?path=RudePravo Digital archive (1950–1989)] {{In lang|cs}}
- [https://adt.arcanum.com/en/collection/RudePravo_OSA/ Archives] of Rudé Právo (1945–1989) via {{ill|Arcanum Newspapers|hu|Arcanum Újságok}}.
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Category:Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Category:Czech-language newspapers
Category:Defunct newspapers published in Czechoslovakia
Category:Eastern Bloc mass media
Category:Newspapers published in Prague