Dr Mojmír Stránský is a post doc researcher in the Austrian Czech (FWF-GACR) project entitled: Linking Arms: A Transnational History of Central Europe’s Weapons Industries, 1954–1994. In this context, he is investigating the role of Austrian state and non-state actors in the distribution of Czechoslovakian weapons and examining the extent to which Vienna served, and continues to serve, as a fiscal-military hub.

He examines individual actors operating in Austria who used Vienna as their primary residence and company headquarters to conduct arms deals originating from Eastern Bloc production, specifically from Czechoslovakia. In doing so, he employs the term ‘fiscal-military hub’, developed by Peter H. Wilson and Marianne Klerk, to highlight the arms deals of the Cold War that passed through Austria.

Research Interests:

• History of Postsocialist Transition
• Social and Cultural History of Eastern Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries
• History of Associations
• Voluntarism under State Socialism
• History of Czechoslovakia
• Czech History

Publications:

Stránský, Mojmír. Civil Society and its Transformation in East Central Europe. In: Rosamund Johnston, Jannis Panagiotidis, Magdalena Baran-Szołtys, Anna Calori, Thuc Linh Nguyễn Vũ, Sheng Peng, Anastassiya Schacht, Philipp Ther (Ed.). The Routledge Handbook of 1989 and the Great Transformation. 2026.

Stránský, Mojmír, and Philipp Ther. “Austria and the Czech Republic as Immigration Countries: Transnational Labor Migration in Historical Comparison.”Austrian History Yearbook 55 (2024): 343–49.

Zdeňka Stoklásková, Mojmír Stránský, Philipp Ther. Österreich Und Tschechien Als Immigrationsländer. LIT Verlag, 2024.

Stoklásková, Zdeňka, Mojmír Stránský, and Philipp Ther. Rakousko a Česká republika jako imigrační země:historické srovnání nadnárodní pracovní migrace od roku 1780. Praha: Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, v.v.i., 2024.

Stránský, Mojmír.„Die Jugend einbeziehen: Die Mobilisierung der Freiwilligen-Feuerwehr-Jugend in der ČSSR“. Totalitarismus und Demokratie (Internet) 17, Nr. 2 (2020): 189–212.

Zivilschutz im Kalten Krieg am Beispiel der Tschechoslowakei, Wien 2015.