Tsisarzh, Chestmir

In 1948 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University. In 1945 he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. At the same time he became secretary of the Sociological Institute in Prague.

• 1946-1952 - in party positions,
• 1952-1957 - Secretary of the HRC in Western Bohemia, took an active part in suppressing the strike against the monetary reform of 1953,
• 1957-1961 - Deputy Chief Editor of the newspaper “ Rude Pravo ”,
• 1961-1965 - Editor-in-chief of the Nova Misl magazine,
• 1963-1965 - the Minister of Education of Czechoslovakia, held liberal views, for which he was transferred to diplomatic work,
• 1964-1966 - Deputy of the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia,
• 1965-1968 - Ambassador of Czechoslovakia in Romania,
• 1968 - Secretary of the Central Committee of the HRC
• 1968-1969 - Chairman of the Czech National Council.

On May 6, 1968, at a ceremonial meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Communist Party dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of K. Marx, C. Tsisarge made a report in which, without explicitly calling the USSR and the CPSU, he emphasized that Marxism and its interpretations in modern conditions cannot be a monopoly of one party or state, and each socialist country has the right to develop it creatively, taking into account local conditions and particularities (articles “Academician F.V. Konstantinov in the newspaper Avda ” of June 14 and July 24, 1968). This fact was the reason that the demand for his resignation from among the leaders of Czechoslovakia along with such politicians and public figures as F. Kriegel , J. Smrkovsky , O. Shik , Z. Mlynarzh , I. Pelikan, E. Goldstyuker and others, was an indispensable condition put forward by the party-state leadership of the USSR in negotiations with the Czechoslovak side.

After the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops in Czechoslovakia, together with other Czechoslovak leaders was kept outside the country. In 1970 he was expelled from the ranks of the HRC, was removed from all government posts, and lived in seclusion for a long time, while refraining from opposition statements and participation in the dissident movement (in particular, he refused to sign the “Charter 77” ). In the late 1980s. participated in the opposition movement of the Communist reformers from the Revival Club for Democratic Socialism. Published in Samizdat under the pseudonym Laureatus. In 1989, his name appeared among possible presidential candidates from the Socialist Youth Union. However, he withdrew in favor of Vaclav Havel .

Prague Spring reformer Císař dies at 93