Activities of the Czechoslovak consulates in Katowice and Szczecin from 1970 to 1989

• Authors: Anna Szczepańska-Dudziak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the article is to analyse the activities of the Czechoslovak consulates in Poland against the background of bilateral relations from 1970 to 1989 and to supplement the state of research on the Czechoslovak foreign service. On the one hand, the caesuras of the article are set by the realization of Husák’s new vision of Czechoslovak foreign policy during the period of so-called normalization; on the other hand, they are closed by the transformations that led to the collapse of the communist system in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989. The activities of the consulates general in Katowice and Szczecin, their permanent underinvestment, staff shortages, and instructions transmitted from the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs, affected the scope and effectiveness of the implementation of consular functions, among which the functions of information, reporting, propaganda, and, in the case of the consulate in Szczecin, also economic ones, were predominant.

Keywords

EN

Czechoslovak diplomacy; consular relations; Polish-Czechoslovak relations; twentieth century

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 123
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 71-97
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Anna Szczepańska-Dudziak

• Historický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i., Prosecká 809/76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic