Based on available sources and literature, this paper seeks to describe the relatively little-known process of separating the area of the newly-established Czechoslovak Republic from the Austrian-Hungarian currency, which tended towards inflation in 1918. The Finance Minister Alois Rašín flawlessly secured a financial operation which placed the Czechoslovak currency on a solid foundation.
The paper focuses on the era after the democratic revolution of 1989, analysing the political agents' expectations about the nature of the future economic system. Describing the case of Czech-American economist Jaroslav Vanek and others, it shows that the contemporary debates included ambitious projects, which aimed at making Czechoslovakia a pioneer of new social orders, usually inspired by the ideas of so-called economic democracy. In conclusion, the paper compares these concepts with the actual development of the East European countries in the following decades, as it has been described in the conteporary researches.
The year 1968 was a milestone in the history of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), which was celebrating the 50th anniversary of its establishment. This paper will analyse the peculiarities of the division of 1968 and its impact on the Greek left, especially on the life of Greek refugees in Czechoslovakia. The paper is based primarily on materials available in the National Archives of Prague and also in the archives of the refugee newspaper Agonistis. The article highlights in chronological order the reactions of the KKE and the Czechoslovak leadership to the news of the military coup in Greece, focusing chiefly on those reactions caused by the split of the KKE in conjunction with the changes brought about by the Prague Spring and its violent repression.