Sino-Czechoslovak Cooperation on Agricultural Cooperatives. The Twinning Project

0481705 - ÚSD 2019 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Kolenovská, Daniela
Sino-Czechoslovak Cooperation on Agricultural Cooperatives. The Twinning Project.
Cold War History. Roč. 18, č. 3 (2018), s. 291-306. ISSN 1468-2745. E-ISSN 1743-7962
Institutional support: RVO:68378114
Keywords : Czechoslovak foreign policy * Sino-Czechoslovak relations * Soviet bloc * collectivisation * twinning
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Impact factor: 0.844, year: 2018

The Czechoslovak Communists officially declared the People’s Republic of China second most important ally after the Soviet Union in 1949. The onset of collectivisation in both countries opened opportunities for exchange of experience in agriculture. Taking a twinning bilateral project between two agricultural cooperatives as an example, the article analyses various dimensions of Sino-Czechoslovak relations. Based upon Czechoslovak archival documents and an interview with the Czech participant in the twinning, it argues that while top political and economic contacts remained Soviet-supervised, on the personal level positive impression survived the Sino-Soviet split although the Czechoslovak Communists stayed loyal to Moscow.
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