Přes nedůvěru k pragmatické spolupráci: Komplexní obraz československo-jugoslávských vztahů v době normalizace
From Distrust to Pragmatic Cooperation: A Comprehensive Picture of Czechoslovak-Yugoslav Relations during the Normalization Era

Summary/Abstract: The joint monograph by Ondřej Vojtěchovský and Jan Pelikán, aptly titled "V čase odkvétání: Československo a Jugoslávie v období pozdního socialismu, 1969–1989" [Blooming Away: Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia in the Period of Late Socialism,1969–1989], comprehensively captures the mutual relations in the two decades between the suppression of the Prague Spring and the fall of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. According to the reviewer, it is ground-breaking because the topic has never been dealt with in detail before. In addition to the development of political relations and economic cooperation, the authors also trace cultural interactions and social contacts, especially in relation to Czechoslovak tourism on the Adriatic coast and the involvement of Yugoslav citizens in the grey economy in normalized Czechoslovakia. The authors have conducted thorough heuristic work in the archives in Prague and Belgrade, and the result is a dense yet freshly written factual text, packed with new information.

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