1st Edition
The Rise and Decline of Communist Czechoslovakia´s Railway Sector
By Tomáš Nigrin
Copyright 2022
256 Pages
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Central European University Press
Once the pride of interwar Czechoslovakia, and key during the forced industrialization of the Stalinist period, during the 1970s and 1980s the Czechoslovak railway sector showed the symptoms of the political tiredness and economic exhaustion of the Soviet Bloc. This book examines the failure of central economic planning through the lens of this national transport system.
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List of tables, List of figures1. Introduction 2. Rail Transport in Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1970 2.1 The First Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938) 2.2 The Second Czechoslovak Republic and the Nazi Occupation (1938-1945) 2.3 Czechoslovakia After World War II (1945-1970) 2.4 Other Transport Sectors in Czechoslovakia (1918-1970) 2.5 Chapter Summary 3. Actors and Institutions of Policy-making for the Railway Sector 3.1 Actors and Institutions of Transportation Policy 3.2 Transportation Policy and the Central Plan 3.3 Institutions of the Railway Sector 3.4 The Foreign Policy of Railway Transport 3.5 Chapter Summary 4. The Internal Mechanisms of the Railway Sector 4.1 The Transportation Sector in the Central Plan 4.2 The Real Mechanisms in the Economy 4.3 The Economy of the Railway Sector 4.4 Political Duties: A Case Study of the Czechoslovak Spartakiads 4.5 National Security Tasks in Peace and War 4.6 Chapter Summary 5. Conditions in the Railway Sector 5.1 Case Study: Operations 5.2 Case Study: The Personnel Situation 5.3 International Cooperation 5.4 Chapter Summary 6. Conclusion References, Index.
Biography
Tomáš Nigrin is director of the Institute of International Studies, at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague.
