The University of 17 November in Prague. Students from Third World Countries in Czechoslovakia, 1961–1974

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.openedition.org/monderusse/13282" target="_blank" >https://journals.openedition.org/monderusse/13282</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/monderusse.13282" target="_blank" >10.4000/monderusse.13282</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The University of 17 November in Prague. Students from Third World Countries in Czechoslovakia, 1961–1974

Original language description

Czechoslovakia’s policy in Africa, Asia and Latin America during the Cold War was not reduced to military and economic cooperation. Hundreds of scholarships were offered to international students to pursue higher education in Czechoslovakia and in 1961 the government established the University of 17th November especially for students from the developing countries. Inspired by the international education policies of the Soviet Union and of Western countries, Prague assumed that this school would train a socialist and Czechoslovak-friendly elite which would occupy key positions in newly-independent countries. This article examines the creation, aims and function of the University of 17th November. It also sheds light on its shortcomings and shows how the change in Czechoslovakia’s policy towards the developing countries led the government to shut down the school in 1974. Still, the article argues that the University of the 17th November embodied Prague’s ambitions for a close relationship with the Third World and had significant legacies on the country’s academic landscape.

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

2022

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Cahiers du Monde Russe

ISSN

1252-6576

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

63

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3/4

Country of publishing house

FR - FRANCE

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

647-668

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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