K činnosti a aktivitám Stredo- a východoevropského výboru pri Európskom hnutiu v rokoch 1948–1953

• Authors: Peter Švík

Title variants

EN

On the Activities of the Central and Eastern European Commission of the European Movement in 1948–1953

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

Except for Vladimír Goněc’s studies on Hubert Ripka’s activities in the aftermath of the WWII or Jan Wszelaki’s group proposal for an Eastern European Schuman Plan, neither Czech nor Slovak historiography paid significant attention to the concepts of Central and Eastern European integration developed by the exile circles in the Western countries after 1945. A striking point here is that these plans, in most cases, did not originate from the respective national exile groups, but were rather a result of interplay between these. Furthermore, the mutual interchange had to be often managed from without by the “unbiased” mediators. These used to be the sympathetic Western politicians, political entrepreneurs or donors. At the end of 1940s and in early 1950s, the Central and Eastern European Commission of the European Movement was one of the most important platforms for such an interaction. While focusing on the Commission’s activities, this article outlines its institutional linkages and composition as well as draws attention to the plan of Central and Eastern European integration worked out within this body at the turn of 1950s.

Keywords

EN

History; 20th century; Cold War; Central and Eastern European Commission of the European Movement - institutional linkages and composition - integration plans for Central and Eastern Europe

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 203-223

Contributors

author

Peter Švík

• Institute of History and Archeology, University of Tartu, Estonsko Guggenheim fellow, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC, The United States of America