Josef Korbel a jeho velvyslanecká mise v komunistické Jugoslávii (Příspěvek k československo-jugoslávským vztahům 1945−1948)

• Authors: Dejmek J.

Title variants

EN

JOSEF KORBEL AND HIS AMBASSADORIAL MISSION IN THE COMMUNIST YUGOSLAVIA - CONTRIBUTION TO CZECHOSLOVAK-YUGOSLAV RELATIONS IN 1945-1948

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Josef Korbel (1909-1977), a Czechoslovak lawyer and diplomat, became publicly known both due to his historical and political works and as the father of the US Secretary of Foreign Affairs Madeleine Albright; the presented contribution introduces Korbel as a Czechoslovak ambassador in Yugoslavia, where he worked in 1945-1948. Yugoslavia was one of the traditional partners of Czechoslovakia and was to play an important role in the 'Neo-Slavonic Concept' by Edvard Benes. However, the state of Yugoslavia, restored after the Second World War, entrenched itself as a real communist dictatorship led by Josip Broz Tito; its policy in Central and South-eastern Europe soon rather complicated the position of Czechoslovakia. Korbel, who became familiar with the Yugoslav environment in the 1930s (he was a Press Executive at the Czechoslovak Embassy in Belgrade at that time), witnessed how the new regime strengthened its power; the initial most visible manifestations of this trend were elections (the only candidate was the National Front) and the subsequent deposing of the dynasty of Karadjordjevićs and the declaring of a federative people's republic. As a result of the initiative of Josip Broz Tito, the restored Yugoslavia became a formal ally of Czechoslovakia in May 1946; however, its aims differed a lot from the concept of foreign policy of the democratic government in Prague.

Keywords

EN

KORBEL JOSEF; POLITICAL RELATIONSHIPS (20TH C.); YUGOSLAVIA

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovanské historické studie (Slavonic Historical Studies)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 32
• Pages: 113-129
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Dejmek J.

• J. Dejmek, Historicky ustav AV CR, v.v.i., Prosecka 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08CZAAAA03627337