From Internationalization to Development: Czechoslovak Economic and Scientific-Technical Cooperation in the Gottwald and Novotný eras (1948-1968)

Diplôme Thèse From Internationalization to Development: Czechoslovak Economic and Scientific-Technical Cooperation in the Gottwald and Novotný eras (1948-1968) eng 2023-01-16 2023-01-16 author Fiser Ondrej 908620 director Kott Sandrine 135684 568 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:166510 urn:nbn:ch:unige-1665101 L. 1071 During the period of communist supremacy, Czechoslovakia teetered between two geopolitical blocs. On the one hand, it was an official constituent of the socialist wing with far-reaching responsibilities to the other member states of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, but on the other, Czechoslovakia’s economy was traditionally pro-Western, and even the political drawing of the Iron Curtain could not completely deconstruct the deep-rooted ties with its Western neighbors. This thesis examines how senior officials of the Czechoslovak Communist Party (Klement Gottwald, Antonín Zápotocký, Antonín Novotný, Viliam Široký, Ota Šik, etc.) as well as individual rank-and-file workers and the scientific-technical intelligentsia dealt with Czechoslovakia's delicate position on the border of two geopolitical blocs. Specific attention is paid to the factors that guided Czechoslovak foreign economic policy, as well as to the question of how the individual actors, forms, platforms, and projects of Czechoslovak intra- and inter-bloc cooperation demonstrate the precariousness of the Czechoslovak position on the international stage. In pursuit of these goals, documents from the Czechoslovak Communist Party and Czechoslovak industrial ministries stored in the Prague archives are consulted and supplemented by the records of international organizations such as the UN Economic Commission for Europe and GATT. These often recently disclosed archival materials have proved capable of opening new doors to grasp the history of the Cold War in a revolutionary way and to expand its hitherto rather one-sidedly antagonistic and conflictual characterization with a new dimension of constructive cooperation. Czechoslovakia Economic cooperation Scientific-technical cooperation East-West cooperation Inter-bloc cooperation International cooperation CMEA COMECON USSR International trade Intra-bloc cooperation Communist Party of the Soviet Union Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Klement Gottwald Antonín Novotný Joseph Stalin Nikita Khrushchev Trade fairs International conference International organization Economic Commission for Europe GATT United Nations Dewey 900 90 Département d'histoire générale 3H false 2fdb085e-73c3-4796-af80-07736fa0036d Thesis Restricted Ondrej Fiser_PhD Thesis.pdf 4773902 application/pdf ff4463257e40910cbd2da0871bf6b805b6f60149c65931f1e91fa921f220b4d3 79d1c9d9-9390-4e4e-8070-c41c3901ddfc Imprimatur Public FISER - Imprimatur.pdf 53407 application/pdf a1ed9a69cce91b049aaa75514e06bfeb81341dbef708ddd4d4b6ae780b279256 restrictedAccess Faculté des lettres / Département d'histoire générale

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