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U.S.-Czechoslovak Economic and Cultural Relations in the Cold War - JTM410
Anglický název: U.S.-Czechoslovak Economic and Cultural Relations in the Cold War
Zajišťuje: Katedra severoamerických studií (23-KAS)
Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
Platnost: od 2020
Semestr: zimní
E-Kredity: 6
Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:1/1, Zk [HT]
Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (50)
Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
4EU+: ne
Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
Stav předmětu: nevyučován
Jazyk výuky: angličtina
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán
povolen pro zápis po webu
Garant: prof. doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ing. Antonie Doležalová, Ph.D.
prof. Catherine Albrecht
Termíny zkoušek   Rozvrh   Nástěnka   
Soubory Komentář Kdo přidal
stáhnout AnOpenLetter from Havel to Husak 1975.pdf Vaclav Havel's Open Letter to Gustav Husak, 1975 prof. Catherine Albrecht
stáhnout Bridge to Bulwark U.S.-Czechoslovak Relations 1945-56 new.pptx prof. Catherine Albrecht
stáhnout GATT and the Cold War Accession Debates, Institutional Development, and the Western Alliance, 1947-1959.pdf prof. Catherine Albrecht
stáhnout George Kennan, Long Telegram.jpg prof. Catherine Albrecht
stáhnout JTM410 Short Essay assignment.docx prof. Catherine Albrecht
stáhnout NSC 68 .pdf prof. Catherine Albrecht
stáhnout Nylon Curtain Transnational and Transsystemic Tendencies in the Cultural Life of State-Socialist Russia and East Central Europe.pdf prof. Catherine Albrecht
stáhnout Paulina Bren, Looking West.pdf prof. Catherine Albrecht
stáhnout Paulina Bren, Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall.pdf prof. Catherine Albrecht
stáhnout Ramet & Ðordević, The three phases of rock music .pdf prof. Catherine Albrecht
stáhnout Reopening to the West U.S.-Czechoslovak Relations 1956-68.with decolonization.pptx prof. Catherine Albrecht
stáhnout Stalin conversation with Czechoslovak delegation on participation in Marshall Plan 1947.pdf prof. Catherine Albrecht
stáhnout Syllabus.U.S. Czechoslovak Relations.December 4 2019.updated.docx prof. Catherine Albrecht
stáhnout The Ambassador in Czechoslovakia (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State May 1948.docx prof. Catherine Albrecht
stáhnout US Loyalty Oath page 1.jpg prof. Catherine Albrecht
stáhnout US Loyalty Oath page 2.jpg prof. Catherine Albrecht
stáhnout U.S.-Czechoslovak Relations before 1945.pptx prof. Catherine Albrecht
Anotace - angličtina
Poslední úprava: prof. doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ing. Antonie Doležalová, Ph.D. (30.10.2019)
This course will examine U.S.-Czechoslovak relations during the Cold War, focusing on cultural and economic contacts and influences from 1945 to 1989.
Cíl předmětu - angličtina
Poslední úprava: prof. doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ing. Antonie Doležalová, Ph.D. (30.10.2019)

The aim of the course is to offer an interdisciplinary view on the US - Czechoslovak relations during the Cold War.

Literatura - angličtina
Poslední úprava: prof. doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ing. Antonie Doležalová, Ph.D. (30.10.2019)

Compulsory literature

Igor Lukes, On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).

Peter Bugge, “Swinging Sixties Made in Czechoslovakia: The Adaptation of Western Impulses in Czechoslovak Youth Culture,” In: Pražské jaro 1968: Občanská společnost - média - přenos politických a kulturních procesů (Prague, 2011), pp. 143-157

Antonie Dolezalova, A History of Czech Economic Thought, London-Routledge 2018, chapter no 4

Paulina Bren, “Women on the Verge of Desire: Women, Work, and Consumption in Socialist Czechoslovakia”, in: David Crowley and Susan E. Reid, eds., Pleasures in Socialism: Leisure and Luxury in the Eastern Bloc, (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press 2010), pp. 177-195.

György Péteri, “Nylon Curtain: Transnational and Transsystemic Tendencies in the Cultural Life of State-Socialist Russia and East Central Europe,” Slavonica 10/2 (2004): 113-23.

Selected primary sources on U.S.-Czechoslovak relations and the Cold War

 

Further reading:

Pavel Kolář, “Post-Stalinist Reformism and the Prague Spring, in: The Cambridge History of Communism, Vol. 2, The Socialist Camp and World Power (1941-1968). Ed. Norman Naimark, Silvio Pons and Sophie Quinn-Judge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 219-249.

David Caute, The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War, rev. ed., (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).

Francine McKenzie, “GATT and the Cold War: Accession Debates, Institutional Development, and the Western Alliance, 1947-1959,” Journal of Cold War Studies 10/2 (2008): 78-109.

Joanna Bockman and Michael A. Bernstein, “Scientific Community in a Divided World: Economists, Planning, and Research Priority during the Cold War,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 50/3 (2008): 581-613.

Yale Richmond, Cultural Exchange and the Cold War: Raising the Iron Curtain (State College: Penn State Press, 2003).

Simona Samuilova, ‘Scientific and Educational Programs between the U.S. and the Eastern Block During the Cold War,” Bulgarian Historical Review (2014): 162-182.

Rachel Appelbaum, “A Test of Friendship: Soviet-Czechoslovak-Soviet Tourism and the Prague Spring,” in: Anne E. Gorsuch and Diane P. Koenker, eds., The Socialist Sixties: Crossing Borders in the Second World (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013), pp 213-234.

Sabrina Ramet and Vladimir Djordević, “The Three Phases of Rock Music in the Czech Lands,” Communist and Post-Communist Studies 52 (2019): 59-70.

Kiril Tomoff, “A Pivotal Turn: Prague Spring 1948 and the Soviet Construction of a Cultural Sphere,” in: György Péteri, ed.  Nylon curtain: transnational and transsystemic tendencies in the cultural life of State-Socialist Russia and East-Central Europe (Trondheim: Program on East European Cultures and Societies, 2006): pp. 54-79.

Stephen Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War, 2d ed.(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).

Paulina Bren and Mary Neuberger, ed., Communism Unwrapped, Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012)

Bolton, Jonathan, Worlds of dissent – Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe and Czech Culture under Communism, Harvard UP 2012. 

Ota Šik, Prager Frühlingserwachen: Errinerungen. (Herford:  Busse Seewald, 1988).

Milan Šimečka, The restoration of order: the normalization of Czechoslovakia, 1969-1976 (London: Verso, 1984).

 

 

Metody výuky - angličtina
Poslední úprava: prof. doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ing. Antonie Doležalová, Ph.D. (30.10.2019)

The course will be organised as a block seminar taught by prof. Catherine Albrecht as follows:

Mo  12/2. and  12/9   14:00-17:00 2 slots     IES, Opletalova 26, room 206

Tu  12/3 and 12/10    12:30-15:30   1 slot  IES, Opletalova 26,  206

We 12/4                    11:00-16:00   4 slots   Staroměstské náměstí 1, Pražské kreativní centrum, room  219

We 12/11                  11:00-16:00   individual discussion     Staroměstské náměstí 1, Pražské kreativní centrum, room  219

Požadavky ke zkoušce - angličtina
Poslední úprava: prof. doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ing. Antonie Doležalová, Ph.D. (30.10.2019)

Active participation, essay.

Sylabus - angličtina
Poslední úprava: prof. Catherine Albrecht (02.12.2019)

Preliminary Schedule of Topics

Po  2/12    14:00-17:00    IES, Opletalova 26, room 206

Introduction to the course

U.S.-Czechoslovak relations 1918-1938

U.S.-Czechoslovak relations during World War II

Discussion: What factors influenced U.S-Czechoslovak relations before 1945?

 

Út  3/12    12:30-15:30     IES, Opletalova 26, 206

U.S.-Czechoslovak relations, 1945-48

The February coup and the Stalinist era

Establishment of the Council of Free Czechoslovakia and other émigré organizations

Czechoslovaks in international organizations, 1945-48

 Discussion: Could the U.S. have done anything to prevent the February coup?

 

St  4/12    11:00-16:00     Staroměstské náměstí 1, Pražské kreativní centrum, místnost č.  219  

Thawing relationships, 1958-68 (trade, tourism, and educational and cultural exchanges)

Czechoslovakia’s role in decolonization and global competition between the superpowers

Discussion: How did diverging and sometimes contradictory trends influence U.S.-Czechoslovak relationships during the years leading up to the Prague Spring?

 

Po  9/12    14:00-17:00    IES, Opletalova 26, room 206

The Prague Spring (economic reform, mutual cultural influences, youth culture)

Relationships during normalization

 Discussion: Why didn’t the U.S. intervene after the Warsaw Pact invasion?

What impact did 1968 émigrés have on U.S.-Czechoslovak Relations?

 

Út 10/12   12:30-15:30    IES, Opletalova 26, room 206

Growing competition in the 1980s: Reagan, Thatcher, and the arms race

Consumerism

Trade and indebtedness

Discussion: How did culture influence U.S.-Czechoslovak relations during normalization? 

How did economic considerations influence U.S.-Czechoslovak relations during normalization?

 

St 11/12   11:00-16:00     Staroměstské náměstí 1, Pražské kreativní centrum, místnost č. 219

1989 and after

 Discussion: How have Czech-U.S. relations evolved since 1989-92?

What influences from the past are still relevant today?

 

 

 
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