Smugglers, Fraudsters, Black Marketeers. Yugoslavs as Actors in the Illegal Cross-Border Trade in Czechoslovakia in the Period of State Socialism

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sofo-2022-810113" target="_blank" >10.1515/sofo-2022-810113</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Smugglers, Fraudsters, Black Marketeers. Yugoslavs as Actors in the Illegal Cross-Border Trade in Czechoslovakia in the Period of State Socialism

Original language description

This article presents the results of primary research on archival sources from the provenance of former state institutions of socialist Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. It focuses on Yugoslavs as actors of illegal cross-border trade in Czechoslovakia during the period of state socialism, which ranged from so-called shopping tourism to organised criminal activities. It argues that Yugoslav citizens, due to their ability to travel freely to Western and Eastern countries, constituted a privileged group among the actors involved. The article documents the extent of this activity, the types of goods traded and the categories of illegal traders. It discusses the evolution in the policy of both Czechoslovak and Yugoslav state authorities towards illegal cross-border trade, and how this issue was reflected in the mutual relations between the two socialist, but different and antagonistic regimes. It concludes that for both socialist dictatorships, attitudes towards cross-border illegal trade represented a sign of their political identity and legitimacy.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

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

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sudost-Forschungen

ISSN

0081-9077

e-ISSN

2364-9321

Volume of the periodical

2022

Issue of the periodical within the volume

81

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

34

Pages from-to

243-276

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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