“Like we would help brothers or sisters”? Practising Solidarity with Greek Civil War Refugees in Socialist Czechoslovakia and the GDR in the Shadow of World War II

0579260 - MÚA 2025 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Tohma, Nikola - Reinke, Julia
“Like we would help brothers or sisters”? Practising Solidarity with Greek Civil War Refugees in Socialist Czechoslovakia and the GDR in the Shadow of World War II.
International Review of Social History. Roč. 69, S32 (2024), s. 13-41. ISSN 0020-8590. E-ISSN 1469-512X
EU Projects: European Commission(XE) 819461 - UnRef
Source of funding: R - Framework programmes of European Commission
Keywords : Czechoslovakia * German Democratic Republic * refugees
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Impact factor: 0.8, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859024000063

This article investigates the solidarity campaigns supporting refugees from the Greek Civil War (1946–1949) in post-war Czechoslovakia and the emerging German Democratic Republic. Framed as an important bridge between the interwar and later Cold War forms of socialist internationalism, this case sheds light on its transitory character, revealing the narrative shift from anti-fascist to anti-imperialist contexts and the increasingly institutionalized and ritualized solidarity. The article contributes to a better understanding of how internationalist solidarity functioned as a platform to build bridges – not only towards the “South”, but also within the Eastern bloc.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0353156