The Passing of Stalin Is Not the End, or the Unstoppable Integration of the Socialist Market

This article deals with the development of economic cooperation in the socialist market between 1953 and 1968 from the perspective of the Czechoslovak economy. The period of Antonín Novotný at the helm of the Czechoslovak Communist Party was a controversial one, as it was characterized by both the efforts to reform Stalinist anachronisms and the initially low capacity to sustainably root these reforms in the fragile frozen ground of Cold War-era soil. The question is whether the gradually unfolding Khrushchev Thaw that accelerated its onset from the second half of the 1950s onwards made it possible to plant certain reforms and reap their fruits in the longer term. It is also necessary to raise the question of the nature of the key actors and obstacles in the process of reforming intra-bloc cooperation. In particular, the archives of the Czechoslovak industrial ministries located in Prague were consulted to research these issues. … celý popis

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Publikováno v

Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino Ročník 63; číslo 1; s. 162 - 177

Hlavní autor

Fišer, Ondřej

Typ dokumentu

Journal Article

Jazyk

English

Vydáno

Institute of Contemporary History 01. 06. 2023
Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino

Témata

Antonín Novotný

CMEA

Cold War

Cold-War History

COMECON

Czechoslovakia

de-Stalinization

economic cooperation

Khrushchev Thaw

Political history

Prague Spring

scientific-technical cooperation

Social history

trade

USSR

Cold War

economic cooperation

trade

COMECON

deStalinization

Khrushchev Thaw

scientifictechnical cooperation

CMEA

USSR

Czechoslovakia

Antonín Novotný

Prague Spring

ISSN

0353-0329
2463-7807

DOI

10.51663/pnz.63.1.08