The Unfinished Revolution: Czechoslovakia, USSR, and the building of Arab socialism in Egypt (1961-1973)
Abstract
Following thread of pioneering agenda of the cultural history and modernization during the last fifteen years the paper inquiries into the Czechoslovak activities and influence in the Nasserist Egypt. By utilizing the documents of the several Czech archives as well as some foreign sources, it pays attention to the peak phase of the bilateral relations in the middle 1960s and symptoms of their waning, especially by the time of the inauguration of Sadat's policy of "openness" (infitah) (1973).
The main focus is here on the perception of Egypt's social-economic transformation by Czechoslovak officials and the role they subscribed to itself in the process. Czechoslovakia's policies enjoyed considerable political autonomy within the so-called Eastern bloc and possessed some distinctive features.