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Nikola Perković, PhD
The Mi­ro­slav Kr­le­ža In­sti­tu­te of Lexico­graphy, Zagreb, Republic of Croatia

 

ECONOMIC RELATIONS BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA (1965–1968) THROUGH THE DOCUMENTS FROM THE KARLOVAC STATE ARCHIVE: COMMERCE, COOPERATION BETWEEN BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS, TOURISM

Vol. XLIV, 1/2026, pp. 163–186
https://doi.org/10.29362/ist20veka.2026.1.per.163-186

 

ABSTRACT/RESUME:

This pa­per, ba­sed on un­pu­blis­hed arc­hi­val ma­te­ri­als and re­le­vant histo­ri­o­grap­hi­cal bi­bli­o­graphy, analyses the eco­no­mic re­la­ti­ons between Yugo­sla­via and Czecho­slo­va­kia, pri­ma­rily in terms of com­mer­ce, co­o­pe­ra­ti­on between bu­si­ness or­ga­ni­za­ti­ons and to­u­rism ac­ti­vi­ti­es between 1965 and 1968, using in­ter­pre­ti­ve descrip­ti­on and quan­ti­ta­ti­ve re­se­arch met­hods. The im­por­tan­ce of re­se­arc­hing this is­sue li­es mos­tly in the events that marked that ti­me pe­ri­od. Na­mely, in 1965 both co­un­tri­es be­gan the most com­plex eco­no­mic re­form to da­te, with the aim of abandoning the USSR con­cept of cen­tral plan­ning, and their inclusion in the in­ter­na­ti­o­nal di­vi­si­on of la­bor. The im­ple­men­ta­ti­on of the­se pro­jects in Yugosla­via was hin­de­red by the dif­fi­cult eco­no­mic si­tu­a­ti­on of the analyzed ti­me­fra­me, particu­larly the lowered li­ving stan­dard, de­cre­a­sed in­du­stri­al pro­duc­ti­on and em­ployment, incre­a­sed unem­ployment and the de­par­tu­re of youn­ger, bet­ter edu­ca­ted po­pu­la­ti­on se­e­king work op­por­tu­ni­ti­es abro­ad. As op­po­sed to Yugo­sla­via, whe­re li­be­ral mo­ve­ments were li­mi­ted by ne­ga­ti­ve in­ter­nal po­li­ti­cal and eco­no­mic cir­cum­stan­ces, they were di­scon­ti­nu­ed in Czechoslo­va­kia by the mi­li­tary in­ter­ven­ti­on of Bul­ga­ria, East Ger­many, Hun­gary, Po­land and USSR on Au­gust 20th and 21st 1968.

 

KEYWORDS: Yugo­sla­via, Czec­ho­slo­va­kia, eco­no­mic re­la­ti­ons, tra­de, to­u­rism

 

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