Letters from Prague: 1947–1957

Eleanor Wheeler

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022

Letters from Prague

1947–1957

Eleanor Wheeler
Edited by: Doubravka Olšáková

Volume 10 in the series Rethinking the Cold War

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110690507

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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.

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Doubravka Olšáková, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

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Eleanor Wheeler: Letters from Prague
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Historians, journalists
Pages
- Front matter: 18
- Main content: 392
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
Keywords: letters; Cold War; McCarthyism; Czechoslovakia; United States

eBook

Published: November 7, 2022
ISBN: 9783110690507

Hardcover

Published: November 7, 2022
ISBN: 9783110690408