Editing Klement Gottwald (section)

=== Beginning of political activity ===
[[File:Gottwald (EKI).jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.5|Gottwald's identification card during his time in the Comintern, 1935]]
In 1926, Gottwald became a [[functionary]] of the [[Communist Party of Czechoslovakia]] (KSČ), and editor of the Communist Press. From 1926 to 1929 he worked in Prague, where he aided the Secretariat of the KSČ to form a pro-Moscow opposition against the  anti-Moscow leadership then in power. From 1928 he was a member of the [[Communist International|Comintern]].  Following a Comintern policy initiated by Stalin, he carried out the [[Bolshevization]] of the Party.<ref>{{cite journal |first=H. Gordon |last=Skilling |title=Gottwald and the Bolshevization of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (1929-1939) |journal=American Slavic and East European Review |volume=20 |issue=4 |year=1961 |pages=641–655|doi=10.2307/3004097 |jstor=3004097 }}</ref>

In February 1929, at the {{ill|Fifth Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia|cs|V. sjezd KSČ|lt=Fifth Congress}} of the KSČ, Gottwald was elected party general secretary, alongside {{ill|Josef Guttmann|cs|de}}, [[Jan Šverma]], [[Rudolf Slánský]], [[Václav Kopecký]] and {{ill|Pavel Reiman|cs|de}}, together known as the {{ill|Karlín Boys|cs|Karlínští kluci}}.

In the second half of 1930, the Communist Party carried out a number of reforms in accordance and response with the changes in those of the foreign policy of the [[Soviet Union]], namely the introduction of the policy on the formation of a [[popular front]] against fascism. In September and October 1938, Gottwald was one of the main leaders of the opposition against the adoption of the [[Munich Agreement]].