Some Aspects of a Relationsship between Czechoslovakia and West Germany in the Cold War Context 1979-1989

This master's thesis deals with the relations of Czechoslovakia (CSR) and the West Germany (FRG) in the global Cold War's affairs context. Time definition makes a period of 1979-1989. The year 1979 has been significant for the World's development, as disturbances in the global affairs took place. That applied not least to a Cold War escalation and a marked deterioration of the Western-Eastern bloc relations. I am dealing not least with the Cold War escalation's manifestation in the Czechoslovak- West German relations. The economic relations between the CSR with the FRG are also elaborated in this thesis along with the influence of politics on them. The thesis likewise deals with the West Berlin factor in the both countries' relations and the relations of Czechoslovakia with the constituent states on the North Rhine-Westphalia's and Bavaria's example. It also responds to a question how Gorbachev's reforms in the second half of the 1980s projected on the Prague-Bonn relations. It further analyses the relations of the Czechoslovak and the German Communist Party. The unpublished sources (Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Archives, Security Services Archive) along with the published ones (Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany) are made use of. The Czech,...