Disenchanting Socialist Internationalism : Polish Workers in Czechoslovakia and East Germany, 1962-91

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=vSmHsbXIig" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=vSmHsbXIig</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00220094211057825" target="_blank" >10.1177/00220094211057825</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Disenchanting Socialist Internationalism : Polish Workers in Czechoslovakia and East Germany, 1962-91

Original language description

This article seeks to paint a more nuanced picture of the role plaid by socialist internationalism in East Germany and Czechoslovakia regarding the employment of foreign labour, focusing on Poles. The long-term cooperation with Warsaw provides a suitable perspective on how to interpret particular periods and milestones of the schemes as a whole. The article partly dissociates from contemporary writing on the subject, which perceives socialist internationalism either as an instrument of propaganda, masking ruthless exploitation, or as a genuine value that inspired and permeated foreign labour recruitment. Based on documents from archives of all three countries in focus, it is argued that the schemes were clearly driven by the economic needs from the very beginning. Except for limited-scale cooperation with countries of the Global South, socialist internationalism came largely to the fore during the 1970s as a substitutional objective, when the economic goals of the foreign labour recruitment proved unreachable, and policymakers were at pains to reshape the meaning of the schemes (running already in full gear). However, with growing and unmanageable economic difficulties, the idealist rhetoric of internationalism plaid an ever more important role in framing the labour force cooperation until the end of communist regimes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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/GA19-12941S" target="_blank" >GA19-12941S: Made by Polish Comrades. The Stories of Czech Industrial Objects and Polish Guest Workers in Interrelated Perspective</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of Contemporary History

ISSN

0022-0094

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

57

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

455-478

UT code for WoS article

000730403900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85121102864