The impact of foreign trade on the Czechoslovak economic reforms of the 1960s

Study of impact of foreign trade on Czechoslovakia in the 1960s provides insight into the emergence of economic pragmatism in socialist states. Examines the pressures placed on Czechoslovakia by the international economy, particularly Czechoslovakia's export difficulties, its increasing import demands, the consequences of the conjunction of these two trends and the role of the USSR in either mitigating or exacerbating international economic pressures.