Review article
Post-war Co-operation between the Union of Czechs and Slovaks in the SR of Croatia and Czechoslovakia
Alen Matušek
; Union of Czechs and Slovaks, Daruvar, Croatia
Abstract
Post-war co-operation between the Union of Czechs and Slovaks in Croatia and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic passed through periods of expansion and reduction depending on the state of bilateral relations between Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.
Political-institutional co-operation included contracts between the Union and Czechoslovak institutions, between political representatives, as well as the entire spectrum of mutual political relations which can be chronologically divided into four periods: 1945–1948 (a significant factor in the discontinuation of co-operation was the resolution of the Information Bureau), 1948–1956, 1956–1973, and 1973 until the present. The contents and forms of this type of co-operation changed through time.
Cultural co-operation included a wider field of cultural and artistic activities: visits by Czechoslovak artistic groups, visits to the old homeland by Czech and Slovak ensembles from Croatia, assistance given by instructors from the CSSR to ensembles in Croatia, the sending of books, musical material, gramophone records and instruction material from the CSSR. This type of co-operation practically began in 1956.
Co-operation in the field of schooling and mother tongue maintenance involved the organisation of seminars in the CSSR for teachers from the nationality schools in Croatia, excursions and the influencing of Czech and Slovak speech in Croatia by recurring acquaintance with cultural elements from the old homeland. This form of co-operation began in 1958. Czech and Slovak students from Croatia studying in the CSSR were also a part of this type of co-operation.
Keywords
co-operation; cultural co-operation; Czechs; Slovaks; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
127986
URI
Publication date:
28.4.1989.
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