Francis D. Raška

Francis D. Raška

FRANCIS D. RAŠKA is an Associate Professor of Modern History at the Department of American Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. He also is a Senior Lecturer at the School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Anglo-American University in Prague. Raška studie dat universities in the United States, Great Britain, and the Czech Republic. His main research interests are Cold War-era political exiles in the West, American foreign policy during the Cold War, and Transatlantic migration. Among his numerous scholarly publications are three books, namely The Czechoslovak Exile Government in London and the Sudeten German Issue (2002), Fighting Communism from Afar: The Council of Free Czechoslovakia (2008), and The Long Road to Victory: A History of Czechoslovak Exile Organizations (2012).

BIBLES FOR COMMUNIST EUROPE – A COLD WAR STORY – PART I

Communist ideology and religion were strong adversaries. The severity of governmental oppression and discrimination against believers, however, varied in the different communist countries. One of the instruments of ideological repression utilised by the communist authorities was limiting the availability of religious materials, especially Bibles. Thus, the smuggling of Bibles into