Československá rozvědka v předvečer studené války
Czechoslovak Intelligence on the Eve of the Cold War

Summary/Abstract: "Na prahu studenej vojny: Československé vojenské výzvedné spravodajstvo v rokoch 1945–1946" [On the Threshold of the Cold War: Czechoslovak Military Intelligence in the Years 1945–1946] by Slovak historian Matej Medvecký comprehensively maps the functioning of Czechoslovak military intelligence in the first two years after the Second World War. The work is the result of the study of a wide range of official sources and fills a vacuum that existed in the scholarship on the topic in Czech and Slovak historiography. The book describes the structure and the essential changes which took place in the intelligence services in these two years, and elucidates their connections with the internal political changes and the new foreign orientation of Czechoslovakia. According to the reviewer, Medvecký provides new insights into the competences, routine activities and problems of intelligence officers and military diplomats of the time, and, above all, answers the most important question of why and how the prestige and importance of Czechoslovak military intelligence declined radically after the war.

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