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Warsaw Treaty Organization 1969-1985. The pinnacle and path to dissolution
Bílý, Matěj ; Pelikán, Jan (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee) ; Litera, Bohuslav (referee)
Ph.D. thesis abstract PhDr. Matěj Bílý The Ph.D. thesis "The Warsaw Treaty Organization 1969-1985. The pinnacle and path to dissolution" analyses inside processes within both political and military structures of the alliance and puts it in the context of the Cold War's development and the events in the Soviet sphere of influence in Europe. It deals mostly with the climax of the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev's rule, however, attention is paid also to the short intermezzo of his successors, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko. The work is based on a broad research in the Czech, Polish and German archives, already published documents and the proper secondary literature. The explanation focuses not only to the development of the organization's mechanisms - it also asses the Warsaw Pact's role as one of the Kremlin's tools for managing the Eastern Bloc. Nonetheless, during Brezhnev's era, the alliance never became an initiator of processes within the Soviet sphere of interest. In fact, the organization's structures were not very initiative. The agenda of meetings was defined elsewhere, most often in Moscow. The activities in the alliance's framework did not constitute a starting-point for the development in the Soviet sphere of influence. On the contrary, the processes within the Warsaw Treaty Organization...
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Warsaw pact. Origin and crisis
Bílý, Matěj ; Pelikán, Jan (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee)
Thesis deals with a history of the Warsaw pact from its establishing in the year 1955 to the year 1969, when a period of the alliance's shaping was finished. Work primary focuses on internal military and political evolvement, analyzed in context of events and evolvement in the Eastern block and simulteneously running Cold War. Work explains why the Warsaw pact was estabilished, how the cooperation in the pact proceeded, what was the real importance of the alliance during the hot Cold War and Eastern Block crisis in the 50' and 60', how the approach of the soviet leadership to the Warsaw pact evolved and how this approach affected relations of soviet satellites and the Warsaw pact.
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Warsaw Pact in 50's and 60's
Bílý, Matěj ; Pelikán, Jan (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee)
Thesis deals with a history of the Warsaw pact from its establishing in 1955 to 1969, when a period of the alliance's shaping was finished. Work primary focuses on internal military and political devolvement, analyzed in context of events and devolvement in the Eastern Bloc and simultaneously running Cold War. The Warsaw Pact came through very dynamical changes in the researched period. If the establishing of the pact did not change international political situation and only formally terminated autonomy of the Soviet European satellites' armed forces, in the time when the reform documents were approved in Budapest, the Warsaw Pact meant the real military alliance and international organization putting forward not irrelevant international initiatives. However, situation within the Warsaw Pact always depended on the development of the relations in the Soviet sphere of influence and actual military and political line of Moscow. In fact, the Kremlin adjusted its acting toward the pact fully to the Soviet's recent needs. Submitted text, based primarily on the research in Czech archives and another published documents, explains why the Warsaw pact was established, how the cooperation in the pact proceeded, what was the real importance of the alliance during the hot Cold War and Eastern Bloc crisis in the...
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