The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe

Herausgeber: Kramer, Mark; Ruggenthaler, Peter; Makko, Aryo

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on extensive archival research, the contributions in this collection examine the nuances of neutrality leading up to and during the Cold War. The contributors demonstrate the importance of the Soviet Union to the neutral states of Europe during the Cold War and vice versa.

Produktdetails

• The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 644
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 970g
• ISBN-13: 9781793631947
• ISBN-10: 1793631948
• Artikelnr.: 64227132

Autorenporträt

Mark Kramer is director of Cold War studies at Harvard University and senior fellow at Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Aryo Makko is pro futura scientia fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), professor of history at Stockholm University, and director of the Hans Blix Centre for the History of International Relations. Peter Ruggenthaler is deputy director and senior research fellow at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on War's Consequences, Austria.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Peter Ruggenthaler and Aryo Makko
PART I. Theories and Practices of Neutrality in Cold War Europe
Chapter 1: Austria's Neutrality-Myth versus Reality, Franz Cede
Chapter 2: Swedish Neutrality, 1949-1991, Olof Kronvall
Chapter 3: Swiss Cold War Neutrality: Undisputed Principle of Foreign
Policy, Thomas Fischer
Chapter 4: Neutrality as Compromises: Finland's Cold War Neutrality,
Johanna Rainio-Niemi
PART II. The Neutrals in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev
Chapter 5: Swedish Neutrality: The View from Moscow, Alexey Komarov
Chapter 6: Soviet Attitudes to Finnish Neutralism, 1947-1989, Kimmo Rentola
Chapter 7: A Hidden Danger for the Eastern Bloc? Neutral Austria in Soviet
Policy from 1955 to the End of the Cold War, Peter Ruggenthaler
Chapter 8 The Soviet Union and Neutral Switzerland: Concerns and Hopes in
1989, Olga Pavlenko
PART III. The Soviet Union in the Policies of the European Neutrals
Chapter 9: Old Fears, New Realities: Sweden and the Soviet Union during the
Cold War, Aryo Makko
Chapter 10: From Aspiration to Consummation and Transition: Finnish
Neutrality as Strategy in the Cold War, Kari Möttölä
Chapter 11: Indefinite Coexistence? Austria, the Soviet Union, and
Ostpolitik after 1968, Maximilian Graf
Chapter 12: "Always Hit Back Right on the Kisser?": The Soviet Union in
Swiss Foreign Policy during the Cold War, Sacha Zala, Thomas Bürgisser, and
Thomas Fischer
PART IV. Departures from the Eastern Bloc to Neutrality
Chapter 13: Soviet-Yugoslav Relations, 1948-1955: From Conflict to
Rapprochement, Andrei Edemskii
Chapter 14: The Neutrality of Hungary during the 1956 Revolution, Csaba
Békés
Chapter 15: Albania: Exploiting Relevance and Irrelevance during the Cold
War, Robert C. Austin
Chapter 16: The USSR and Yugoslavia's Policy of Nonalignment, 1955-1980,
Nadia Boyadjieva
Chapter 17: How Could the Nonaligned Save Yugoslavia?: The 1989 Summit of
the Non-Aligned Countries in Belgrade and the Breakup of Yugoslavia, Tvrtko
Jakovina
PART V. Western Perspectives on Neutrality and Neutral-Soviet Relations
Chapter 18: The United States and Neutrality in Scandinavia, Jussi M.
Hanhimäki
Chapter 19: United States and Austrian Neutrality during the Cold War,
Günter Bischof
Chapter 20: The United Kingdom and the European Neutrals during the Cold
War, Anne Deighton
Chapter 21: France, the European Neutrals, and the USSR, 1947-1981, Nicolas
Badalassi
Chapter 22: Neutrality in the Cold War: Views from West Germany, Andreas
Hilger
Chapter 23: NATO and the Neutrals on the Flanks: Finland, Sweden, and
Yugoslavia, Milorad Lazic and Magnus Petersson
PART VI. Conclusions
Chapter 24: The USSR and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe,
Mark Kramer