A 'Mudbank' or 'the Most Dangerous Area in the World'? Decolonising British Guiana, Czechoslovakia, and the Making of a Cold War Hot Spot in Latin America

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F22%3A10451546" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/22:10451546 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=L3bj4KEmAB" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=L3bj4KEmAB</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2022.2118990" target="_blank" >10.1080/03086534.2022.2118990</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A 'Mudbank' or 'the Most Dangerous Area in the World'? Decolonising British Guiana, Czechoslovakia, and the Making of a Cold War Hot Spot in Latin America
Original language description
The Cold War relationship between British Guiana's People's Progressive Party (PPP) and Czechoslovakia is a case study of how decolonising Third World national liberation movements tried to break free from the Western orbit with the help of the Eastern Bloc. PPP co-founder Cheddi Jagan was the unique elected anti-colonial nationalist leader who secretly worked to assist and join the Eastern Bloc. This article highlights cooperation between British Guiana's leaders and Czechoslovakia aimed at achieving liberation, industrialisation, and scientific socialism. It also demonstrates Czechoslovak and Soviet plans to use British Guiana as a base for South American intelligence operations and to begin bringing postcolonial Guyana into the Eastern Bloc's orbit.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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