Rise and Decline of Communist Czechoslovakia´s Railway Sector

Tomáš Nigrin is director of the Institute of International Studies, at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague.

• List of tables, List of figures1. Introduction 2. Rail Transport in Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1970 2.1 The First Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938) 2.2 The Second Czechoslovak Republic and the Nazi Occupation (1938-1945) 2.3 Czechoslovakia After World War II (1945-1970) 2.4 Other Transport Sectors in Czechoslovakia (1918-1970) 2.5 Chapter Summary 3. Actors and Institutions of Policy-making for the Railway Sector 3.1 Actors and Institutions of Transportation Policy 3.2 Transportation Policy and the Central Plan 3.3 Institutions of the Railway Sector 3.4 The Foreign Policy of Railway Transport 3.5 Chapter Summary 4. The Internal Mechanisms of the Railway Sector 4.1 The Transportation Sector in the Central Plan 4.2 The Real Mechanisms in the Economy 4.3 The Economy of the Railway Sector 4.4 Political Duties: A Case Study of the Czechoslovak Spartakiads 4.5 National Security Tasks in Peace and War 4.6 Chapter Summary 5. Conditions in the Railway Sector 5.1 Case Study: Operations 5.2 Case Study: The Personnel Situation 5.3 International Cooperation 5.4 Chapter Summary 6. Conclusion References, Index.

"Tomáš Nigrin's book is a valuable contribution to the history of Czechoslovak and European railways and the history of transportation in the second half of the twentieth century. He analyzes previously unpublished sources and puts the whole problem in a broader European context."https://muse.jhu.edu/article/903993