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Plodná asymetrie. Precizní kniha o kulturní vyměně přes železnou oponu
A Fruitful Asymmetry: A Meticulously Researched Publication about Cultural Exchange through the Iron Curtain

Author(s): Soňa Mikulová
Subject(s): Review
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro soudobé dějiny

Summary/Abstract: Lizcova, Zuzana. Kulturni vztahy mezi ČSSR a SRN v 60. letech 20. stoleti. Prague: Dokořan and Fakulta socialnich věd Univerzity Karlovy, 2012, 194 pp, ISBN 978-80-7363-201-4 a 978-80-87404-13-3. The book under review discusses cultural and cultural-political developments in Czechoslovakia and the Federal Republic of Germany from the end of the Second World War to the beginning of the 1970s, with the main focus on the 1960s. In the spirit of the new political history and the new cultural history, its author explores the role of high-level politics and social groups outside the State structure, mainly the creators and consumers of the cultural products that became an object of exchange between Czechoslovakia and the Federal Republic. The book also considers how these processes and events were commented on in the contemporaneous press, and seeks to provide an overall picture of the expressions of culture in the political, social, and economic climates in both countries. It focuses mainly on fi lm and the fi ne arts, and emphasizes the extraordinary importance of mutual cultural exchanges between the two countries at a time when no diplomatic relations existed between them.

  • Issue Year: XX/2013
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 661-662
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Czech