Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain. The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945-1989

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Smetana, Vít
Concessions or Conviction? Czechoslovakia's Road to the Cold War and the Soviet Bloc.
Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain. The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945-1989. Lahnam: Lexington Books, 2014 - (Kramer, M.; Smetana, V.), s. 55-85. The Harvard Cold War studies book series. ISBN 978-0-7391-8185-0
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378114
Klíčová slova: Czechoslovakia * Cold War * Soviet Bloc
Kód oboru RIV: AB - Dějiny

This chapter discusses how Czechoslovakia was incorporated into the Soviet sphere of influence after World War II and was then turned into a Communist state. The author shows that, from the outset, policymakers in both Moscow and Washington tended to regard Czechoslovakia as lying within the Soviet orbit, partly because of the positions taken by Czechoslovakia's wartime government-in-exile. By the same token, most of the Czechoslovak democratic politicians in the "third Czechoslovak republic" (1945-1948), haunted by the German menace, were ready to compromise freedom for security, the source of which they could see only in Moscow. In this way, they played into the Czechoslovak Communists' hands.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0245043