A Matter of Courtesy. The Role of Soviet Diplomacy and Soviet “System Safeguards” in Maintaining Soviet Influence on Czechoslovak Science before and after 1968

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Olšáková, Doubravka
A Matter of Courtesy. The Role of Soviet Diplomacy and Soviet “System Safeguards” in Maintaining Soviet Influence on Czechoslovak Science before and after 1968.
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Roč. 43, č. 4 (2020), s. 542-559. ISSN 0170-6233. E-ISSN 1522-2365
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GA19-04546S
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378114
Klíčová slova: Czechoslovakia * Soviet Union * science diplomacy
Obor OECD: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Impakt faktor: 0.328, rok: 2020
Způsob publikování: Omezený přístup
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bewi.202000023

In 1969, a few short months after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, Sergei I. Prasolov, advisor to the Soviet Ambassador in Prague, informed František Šorm, President of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, at a formal meeting that he welcomed Šorm's suggestion to intensify scientific exchange between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. Šorm politely declined this offer. Behind the veneer of diplomatic courtesy on the part of both actors, a real drama was taking place. The Soviet system of academic cooperation within the Eastern Bloc had already begun to collapse after the Geneva Summit of 1955, where the Soviets opened the door to international collaboration across the Iron Curtain. Yet it was only in the late 1960s that the Soviets realized that while they dominated large-scale international collaboration, they had lost control of internal developments within the Eastern Bloc.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0322595