Dopady vstupu do RVHP na zahraniční obchod Československa

This bachelor thesis analyzes the impacts of entry of Czechoslovakia into COMECON on Czechoslovak international trade during the first ten years of this organisation’s existence. Its main goal is to evaluate the shifts in the commodity structure as well as the qualitative and quantitative changes that have taken place in the foreign trade of the Czechoslovak Republic because of the establishment of the COMECON. In the theoretical part I mainly deal with the events preceding the establishment of the COMECON, primarily the political and economic situation of the Czechoslovak Republic after World War II until the year 1949. In the practical part I first describe COMECON’s activity in the first years of its existence which I follow with the analysis of foreign trade of Czechoslovakia between 1949 and 1959. In this regard, I mainly examine the overall development of imports and exports, changes in the commodity structure or for example who the largest trade partners during this period were.