Individual service providing as an economic practice in late communist Czechoslovakia

• Authors: Václav Rameš
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article examines the economic practice of individual service providing in communist Czechoslovakia from 1965 to 1989. It analyses changes in its legal regulation which occurred in years 1965, 1983 and 1988, and examines one unimplemented reform draft from 1989 which sought to establish a different form of state economic governance over individual businesses. It gives a quantitative account of individual service providing in the 1980s, as well as an insight into the spectrum of business areas individual providers operated in. The quantitative analysis draws on public statistical evidence and scattered archival sources, mainly from the East Bohemian region in the 1980s.

Keywords

EN

Communism; dictatorship; Czechoslovakia; socialism; central planning; private businesses; economic history; perestroika

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: 2023
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 207-230
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Václav Rameš

• Moderní dějiny, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic