Paper short abstract:

This paper examines not yet explored part of Czechoslovak cooperation with Angola after 1975. Analysis of Czechoslovak expertise in this African state contributes to the current academic discussion about the role of smaller socialist states in the Cold War competition in the Global South.

Paper long abstract:

The Czechoslovak expertise in independent Angola, which has not yet been the subject of broader research interest, became one of the most important cooperations between both states after the Angolan independence in 1975. The paper examines the motivations of the actors involved in this policy, its evolution, and its outcomes. The aim is to show a new dimension of interactions between the East and South, reconsider the role of smaller socialist states in the global Cold War and find if there are some reverberations of this policy in the present.