Špatná strana hranice? Anglicky mluvící levicová komunita v Československu na počátku studené války
On the Wrong Side of the Border? English Speaking Leftist Community in Czechoslovakia at the Beginning of the Cold War

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the English-speaking community in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s. It attempts to illustrate that although international communism was supposed to cross national boundaries, it was not always the case in reality. There were invisible boundaries – mental, language, cultural, ethnic and racial – that proved to be difficult to overcome for both the guests and their hosts. The paper concentrates on questions such as the role of Czechoslovakia and Prague in the international communist movement, anti- Western propaganda, political asylum, housing and job related issues the English-speakers had to face, family questions, language issues and free time activities.

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