Ondřej Vojtěchovský, Visiting Fellowship 2023/24

Biography

I am an assistant professor at the Institute of World History at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. I have worked on the phenomenon of political emigration and refugees to communist Czechoslovakia, especially in my book “From Prague against Tito! Yugoslav Pro-Soviet Emigration in Czechoslovakia” (Czech 2012, Croatian 2016). In the monograph „Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia in the period of late socialism” (together with J. Pelikán, Czech 2021, Croatian 2023), I have studied various aspects of relations between the two socialist federations in the 1970s and 1980s and related social and cultural phenomena. I also deal with the topic of the operation of Yugoslav construction companies and their workers in Czechoslovakia. I am currently collaborating on a project on the crisis in Yugoslavia in the first half of the 1980s from the perspective of members of the central state and party bodies of the Yugoslav Federation.

Motivation for the fellowship

I am currently involved in the project Crisis – Reform – (In)stability. The Yugoslav Socialist System from the Actors’ Perspective, 1980-1986/1987. I would like to use my one-month stay in Ljubljana to work on the chapter, which deals with the discourse of the “crisis” in 1980s Yugoslavia. In addition to the excellent opportunity for concentrated work, I am very happy to take advantage of consultations with my colleagues, and members of the Institute’s staff. During my professional career, I have maintained close contact with some Slovenian colleagues. Therefore, I would like to deepen this cooperation in the future.

Visiting fellowship May 2024

Selected Publications

Ondřej Vojtěchovský, Jan Pelikán. Ne baš lako socijalističko prijateljstvo. Čehoslovačka i Jugoslavija u razdoblju kasnog socijalizma (1969-1989). Srednja Europa, Zagreb 2023.

Ondřej Vojtěchovský. Iz Praga protiv Tita! Jugoslavenska informbiroovska emigracija u Čehoslovačkoj. Srednja Europa, Zagreb 2016.

Ondřej Vojtěchovský. “Smugglers, Fraudsters, Black Marketeers. Yugoslavs as Actors in the Illegal Cross-Border Trade in Czechoslovakia in the Period of State Socialism” Südost-Forschungen, vol. 81, no. 1, 2022, pp. 243-276. https://doi.org/10.1515/sofo-2022-810113.

Ondřej Vojtěchovský, Jan Pelikán. “A Different Socialism: Czechoslovak Normalisation and Yugoslavia” In: McDermott, K., Stibbe, M. (eds) Czechoslovakia and Eastern Europe in the Era of Normalisation, 1969–1989. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2022, pp. 313.336. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98271-3_14.

Ondřej Vojtěchovský, Jan Pelikán. “A Bridge to the West: Yugoslavia as a Transit Country for Czechoslovak Emigrants from the 1960s to 1980s” Střed/Centre. Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries, 2019/2, pp. 61-86.

Ondřej Vojtěchovský, Borut Klabjan. “Omejena solidarnost. Tržaški komunisti v Pragi na prelomu štiridesetih in pedesetih let 20. stoletja” In: G. Bajc, B. Klabjan (eds.), Pirjevčev zbornik. Poti zgodovine med severnim Jadranom, srednjo in vzhodno Evropo. Koper 2011, str. 173-192.

Ondřej, Vojtěchovský. “Anton Rupnik. Pot slovensko-francoskega komunista do kariere jugoslovanskega informbirojevskega funkcionarja” Acta Histriae, 18, 1/2 (2010), str. 151-174.