Czechoslovak Forest Experts in Cold War Angola

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Czechoslovak Forest Experts in Cold War Angola

Original language description

The first Czechoslovak pioneers of tropical and subtropical forestry appeared in the nineteenth century. Yet, only after the onset of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia in 1948, in connection withthe advancing decolonization of the Global South and the culmination of the Cold War, did the dispatch of forest experts in post-colonial countries become a targeted and centrally-controlled policyof Prague. The first educational institutions focused on tropic forestry and Polytechna, a Czechoslovak foreign trade corporation whose task was to send Czechoslovak experts abroad, were establishedin the late 1950s. By the mid-1970s, when Angola gained independence, Czechoslovak authorities already had considerable experience with the dispatch of their forest experts in the global South. Suchexperts became part of the extensive Czechoslovak assistance to new pro-socialist Angolan government. This article, based on interviews with the former Czechoslovak experts sent to Angola after1975, complemented by archival documents, analyzes their individual trajectories and experiencesto show how this policy looked in practice.

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

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Prague Papers on the History of International Relations [online]

ISSN

2336-7105

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2021

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

79-94

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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