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Focusing on cooperative exchanges between Czechoslovakia and Poland in the 1960s and 70s, this collection explores international science collaborations during the Cold War. During the era of real socialism, the states of Central and Eastern Europe were caught between the "East" and the "West." As members of the Eastern Bloc they had to adhere to Moscow centrism, yet partial autonomy in scientific internationalism and longstanding Western-oriented traditions created space for exceptions. The Contributors to this volume provide a nuanced understanding of socialist hierarchies and the knowledge transfers they facilitated, challenging the perception that socialist scholars acted solely according to rigid, reciprocal plans.
“This excellently composed volume brings together eminent experts in the history of science of East Central Europe. …The focus on two East Central European countries allows for an innovative view of the history of scientific relations, because it brings regions into focus that cannot simply be classified within narratives of post- or decolonial relations. In this way the volume successfully contributes to a de-centering of the history of science.” • Claudia Kraft, University of Vienna
Jan Jakub Surman is a historian specializing in the intellectual and scientific history of Central and Eastern Europe. He earned his Ph.D. in History at the University of Vienna and has held fellowships in Vienna, Moscow, Princeton, and Marburg. His research explores the intersections of science, language, and politics. He has published widely on multilingualism in academia, the history of positivism, and knowledge circulation, and serves on editorial boards of several international journals in the history of science.
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Preface
The Age of Reciprocity: An Introduction
Jan Surman, Lukas Becht, Maciej Górny, Kornelia Kończal, Doubravka Olšáková, Tomáš W. Pavlíček, Luboš Studený, Michaela Šmidrkalová
Chapter 1. National Internationalism in Socialist Science: Entanglements of Czech, Slovak and Polish Historians of Science and Technology
Michaela Šmidrkalová
Chapter 2. Scientific Technological Revolution and the Failure of Czechoslovak-Polish Cooperation
Jan Surman
Chapter 3. Networking the Future? Czech-Polish Futures Studies in the 1970s
Luboš Studený and Lukas Becht
Chapter 4. Central Planning and Socialist Reciprocity
Maciej Górny
Chapter 5. Asymmetries in Mathematical Knowledge
Tomáš W. Pavlíček
Chapter 6. Roads (Not) Taken: Practices of Cooperation between Polish and Czechoslovak Sociologists under State Socialism
Kornelia Kończal
Chapter 7. Czechoslovak-Polish Scientific Collaboration on Security in Central and Eastern Europe: The Pugwash Conferences in Czechoslovakia and Poland
Doubravka Olšáková
Afterword: So, What Was it Like? The Science Diplomacy of Reciprocity in Eastern and Central Europe During the Cold War
Simone Turchetti
Index