CZECHOSLOVAKIA

CZECHOSLOVAKIA / ČESKOSLOVENSKO.

11th Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
Illustrated map of Czechoslovakia, and sickle and hammer.
Second stamp in a set of 3, issued on 26.05.1958.
Face value: 45 haléřů of Czechoslovak koruna.
Print: 1,490,000 copies.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 1076.
- Scott No. 860.
- StampWorld No. 1073.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 960. (?)

The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Komunistická strana Československa, KSČ) was founded at the Congress of the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party held in Prague between May 14 and 16, 1921 and remained active until 1992 (except during the German occupation of the country in WWII). Its first leader was Václav Šturc (1858-1939). The KSČ exercised power in the country from 1948 to 1989. The "Law on the illegality of the communist regime and resistance against it", passed in 1993 in the Czech Republic, made it illegal in the new Republic.