Jiří Horák

Jiří Horák (24 April 1924 in Hradec Králové – 25 July 2003 in Englewood, Florida) was a Czech politician.

[1] After 1945, Horák studied at Business Institute (Vysoká škola obchodní) in Prague and was active in the youth organisation of the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party.

When the Communist Party took all power (1948) he emigrated to West Germany and in 1951 to the United States.

He subsequently taught Eastern European and Russian government and politics at Manhattan College, in Riverdale (Bronx) NY.

In 1993, Horák returned to the United States, from where he criticised the new strategy of Czech social democracy.