Life Like a Swing

Women’s Perspectives of Everyday Life in Czechoslovak Seafarers’ Families Under State Socialism

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ID21986274
AuthorsLenka Krátká (0000-0002-5956-720X, Czech Academy of Sciences, corresponding author)
Year2020
Publication date2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueWrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2084-0578 • E-ISSN: 2719-7522
PublisherOsrodek Pamiec i Przyszlosc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.26774/wrhm.246
OpenAlexW3038118020
LanguageEN
References cited11

Similarly as in other "socialist" countries, the freedom of traveling, going abroad, and returning home through strictly guarded borders was highly limited in Czechoslovakia before 1989. The crucial milestone in setting limits for free travel was the communist coup d'tat in 1948, which "closed" the boundaries. In 1963, an important breakthrough towards liberalization in traveling occurred: "trouble-free" Czechoslovak citizens were allowed to travel to other socialist countries. It was also possible to travel to Western (capitalist) countries, but in the latter case, the conditions were much more restrictive. While the period of democratization in Czechoslovakia in the second half of the 1960s brought significantly greater freedom to travel, the time after the Warsaw Pact armies' invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5956-720X. 2

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