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Since the 19th century the Balkans have been integrating themselves into Europe. However, it still completely remains a 'peripheral area'. The application of the patterns of a dynamic western civilization on agrarian, autarkic and relatively static cultures in the Balkan countries was not easy and often resulted in crises reflected in all aspects of life. Pre-war regimes in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Romania and Greece tried in vain to confront these crises. They did not manage to solve the critically important agrarian problem, nor did they succeed in their attempts to maintain political stability. Therefore, in the end, the institutions, founded after the establishment of the national states, followed the path laid by authoritative structures. The collapse of the Balkan regimes before and during the Second World War formed conditions for the entry of modernisation which, however, was taking place in the scope of 'the construction of socialism'. The whole process can be documented in the specific development of Romania, which changed into an agrarian-industrial country in the post-war forties. In its final phase, the communist regime bore many problems. Today, Romania is on the threshold of a new era of modernisation.
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In the latter half of the 1940s, processes generally known as 'Sovietization' took place in Bulgaria, Rumania and Albania. This meant a total submission of these countries to Moscow. The ruling Communists in the countries of so-called 'people's democracy' were not allowed any more to develop any model of organization and control of society differing from the Soviet one. The Cold War required total obedience in the Soviet block that was not supposed to be weakened by heresy any more (as in J. B. Tito's case). Stalin's death in March 1953, however, and the following search for a 'new course', accompanied by destalinization, caused another slow erosion of the Soviet Empire. The first country to get partly rid of its dependence was Rumania, for the sake of a sort of 'liberalism', followed by Albania, for the sake of dogmatism. Only Bulgaria, where Todor Zhivkov's regime became established for several decades, remained an absolutely loyal and never arguing ally of the Soviet Union in Southeast Europe.
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Vzpomínka na PhDr. Pavla Hradečného, CSc.

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The authors of the article assess the life and work of a prominent Czech Balkan scholar Pavel Hradecny (1938-2006), who specialized in the history of Albania, Greece and nations of the former Yugoslavia.
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