Children of the Enemy or the Future of Socialism? Being a Child of an American Soldier in Socialist Czechoslovakia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://karolinum.cz/casopis/historicka-sociologie/rocnik-15/cislo-1/clanek-11395" target="_blank" >https://karolinum.cz/casopis/historicka-sociologie/rocnik-15/cislo-1/clanek-11395</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23363525.2023.3" target="_blank" >10.14712/23363525.2023.3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Children of the Enemy or the Future of Socialism? Being a Child of an American Soldier in Socialist Czechoslovakia

Original language description

After the US Army liberated Czechoslovakia and consequently left the country at the end of 1945, local women started to give birth to children fathered by American soldiers. As a result of their multifaceted origin these children had to face various challenges in post-war Czechoslovakia. Not only did the perception of their fathers change from liberators to enemies of socialism. Being illegitimate, children of US soldiers also challenged traditional social values. In the case of mixed-race children, their different physical characteristics (e. g. skin color) could make them targets to manifestations of racism in Czechoslovak society. Based on an analysis of available archival sources, this study asks whether there was a specific state policy towards children of American soldiers. Furthermore, with the help of oral history interviews the study also exam- ines the impact the various aspects of these children?s origin had on their everyday life.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS 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

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Continuities

O - Projekt operacniho programu

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Historická sociologie - časopis pro historické sociální vědy

ISSN

1804-0616

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

27-46

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85162080771