Abstract
Foreign policy has been at the heart of political debate in all the countries of the region. How could it be otherwise? Their emergence, survival and development as states in the inter-war period had always depended on their relations with their powerful eastern and western neighbours and the balance of power within the region. Their fate had been decided after 1945 on the basis of the then prevailing geopolitical situation. Nowhere, not even in Czechoslovakia, could communism have triumphed purely internally. Its success was Moscow-driven. All attempts at reform or revolution succeeded, as in 1989–90, or failed, as in 1953 (Berlin), 1956 (Poland and Hungary), 1968 (Czechoslovakia) or 1981 (Poland), because of the attitude of Moscow.
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Fitzmaurice, J. (1998). Foreign Policy. In: Politics and Government in the Visegrad Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373228_13
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