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This course will examine U.S.-Czechoslovak relations during the Cold War, focusing on cultural and economic contacts and influences from 1945 to 1989. Poslední úprava: Doležalová Antonie, prof. doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ing., Ph.D. (30.10.2019)
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The aim of the course is to offer an interdisciplinary view on the US - Czechoslovak relations during the Cold War. Poslední úprava: Doležalová Antonie, prof. doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ing., Ph.D. (30.10.2019)
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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).
Poslední úprava: Doležalová Antonie, prof. doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ing., Ph.D. (30.10.2019)
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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 Poslední úprava: Doležalová Antonie, prof. doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ing., Ph.D. (30.10.2019)
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Active participation, essay. Poslední úprava: Doležalová Antonie, prof. doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ing., Ph.D. (30.10.2019)
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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?
Poslední úprava: Albrecht Catherine, prof. (02.12.2019)
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