Abstract
1947 marked a turning point in European and World politics. The wartime coalition ended and the world was becoming gradually bipolar — in ideological terms communism and democracy confronted each other. The aggressive steps of Soviet policy, the Truman doctrine, the European Recovery Program and the founding of Cominform in September started the Cold War. Using newly available Czechoslovak archival documents, this chapter explains the decision-making process of Czechoslovakia in its consideration of participation in the Marshall Plan and the influence the Soviet Union had on this process.
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There is now a rich literature on the genesis of the Marshall Plan: see H.B. Price, The Marshall Plan and its Meaning (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1955);
Michael J. Hogan, The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947–1952 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988);
John Gimbel, The Origins of the Marshall Plan, (California: Stanford University Press, 1976);
John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982);
Adam Adams Brown Jr. and Redvers Opie, American Foreign Assistance (Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, 1953);
Evan Luard (ed.), The Cold War. A Reappraisal (New York: Praeger, 1965);
John Lewis Gaddis, The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989);
Othmar Nicola Haberl and Lutz Niethammer (eds), Der Marshall-Plan und die Linke (Frankfurt: Europäische Verlaganstalt, 1986).
Milovan Djilas, Conversations with Stalin (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1962) p. 114.
Kenneth Young (ed.), The Diaries of Robert Bruce Lockhart1939–1965 (London: Macmillan, 1980) p. 606.
W. Ullman, The United States in Prague1945–1948 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1978) p. 76,
and Josef Belda et al., Na rozhraní dvou epoch (On the border of two epochs) (Prague: Svoboda, 1968) p. 121.
Robert Bruce Lockhart, Jan Masaryk (London, Ustav Dr. a Eduarda Beneša 1952) p. 65;
Josef Korbel, The Communist Subversion of Czechoslovakia (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1959) p. 183;
and Marcia Davenport, Princeton University Press, Too Strong for Fantasy (New York, Scribner, 1967) p. 404.
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Krátký, K. (1994). Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and the Marshall Plan. In: Westad, O.A., Holtsmark, S., Neumann, I.B. (eds) The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, 1945–89. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23234-5_2
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