نبذة مختصرة : This article examines the challenges and failures of specialization cooperation within the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA), focusing on the electronics industry in state-socialist Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, and Poland. The authors contend that, although specialization was theoretically designed to optimize production and efficiency across the Soviet Bloc, in practice it often led to resistance, parallel production, and inefficiencies. The study demonstrates how economic planning mechanisms, national self-sufficiency policies, and mutual distrust among CMEA member states undermined efforts at coordinated specialization, particularly in the highly dynamic and capital-intensive field of electronics. Despite early successes, electronics specialization efforts eroded over time, with each country ultimately producing a wide range of components independently, leading to inefficiencies and wasted resources. Especially from the late 1960s, member states prioritized their own industrial agendas, often opting for Western technology licenses rather than relying on intra-bloc production. Drawing primarily on archival sources and published memoirs of former workers in the branch, the authors analyse the experiences of three major semiconductor producers - the Czechoslovak Tesla Rožnov, the East German Semiconductor Plant (Halbleiterwerk) Frankfurt/Oder (HFO), and the Polish Scientific-Industrial Centre for Semiconductors (Naukowo-Produkcyjne Centrum Półprzewodników) CEMI in Warsaw - and show that while electronics presented a unique opportunity for meaningful specialization, the accumulated mistrust, economic pressures, and the increasing accessibility of Western technology led to the gradual collapse of cooperative efforts. ; Studie zkoumá problémy a neúspěchy specializační spolupráce v rámci Rady vzájemné hospodářské pomoci (RVHP) se zaměřením na elektronický průmysl v komunistickém Československu, Německé demokratické republice a Polsku. Autoři tvrdí, že ačkoli specializace byla ...
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