1st Edition
The Eastern Bloc and Sub-Saharan Africa Czechoslovakia, UNESCO and Development Aid from the 1960s and Beyond
Introduction
Chapter 1: The System of Development Aid within the Context of Cold War Geopolitics
From the Prehistory of Development Assistance to the First Development Decade Contribution to the Concept of Development
International Development Aid in Education
Socialist-style Approach to the Development in the Third World Altered Climate of Educational Assistance
Towards the Reform of the Educational Development
Revisiting the Soviet Aid
Chapter 2: The Economy of Development Aid: Czechoslovak Perspective
Vivat Internationalism? (1961-1969)
Pragmatic Turn of the Late 1960s
Development Aid during the period of “consolidation” (1969-1974)
Between the Profit-Based Logic and Solidarity (1974-1989)
Chapter 3: ČSSR and UNESCO Development Programmes
Czechoslovak Cooperation with UNESCO.
Constructing the Universal Language of Development
Educational Planners
Literacy Experts
Science Teachers
Engineering Instructors
Hydrology Trainers
Chapter 4: Commercialization of the Expert Service
Balancing between the Politics and Economy
International Experts – National Interests
Lessons Learned?
Roles of Experts in 1970s
Conclusion
Tables
Biography
Barbora Buzássyová is a researcher at the Institute of History of Slovak Academy of Sciences. She focuses on Cold War History and Czechoslovak–Global South relations. She is the author of “Side by Side with the Fighting Nations”: Making the New Culture of Pro-African Solidarity in the Campaigns of the Czechoslovak Committee for Solidarity with African and Asian Peoples (2024).
