Špatná strana hranice? Anglicky mluvící levicová komunita v Československu na počátku studené války

• Authors: Kathleen Geaney

Title variants

EN

On the Wrong Side of the Border? English Speaking Leftist Community in Czechoslovakia at the Beginning of the Cold War

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

English-speaking communists in Czechoslovakia 1948–1968; international communism; Czechoslovakia; United States; Canada; Australia; New Zealand

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Masaryk's Institute and Archives, ASCR
• Journal: Střed. Časopis pro mezioborová studia Střední Evropy 19. a 20. století. / Centre. Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 40–62

Contributors

author

Kathleen Geaney

• Střed, redakce, Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, v.v.i., Gabčíkova 2362/10, 180 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic