Originally published in: HISTORIA I ŚWIAT, nr 12 (2023), ISSN 2299-2464, e-ISSN 2956-6436 Author: Ondřej FIŠER, University of Geneva, Switzerland Abstract: This article is a discourse on the main trendsetters of international economic cooperation in the Eastern Bloc in the period 1948-1953. Special emphasis is placed on the architects of cooperation between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union, since both countries established themselves as economic leaders after the Second World War...