The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe: : The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series Robert Austin Lexington Books

The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe

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The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe examines how the neutral European countries and the Soviet Union interacted after World War II. Amid the Cold War division of Europe into Western and Eastern blocs, several long-time neutral countries abandoned neutrality and joined NATO. Other countries remained neutral but were still perceived as a threat to the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence. Based on extensive archival research, this volume offers state-of-the-art essays about relations between Europe’s neutral states and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and how these relations were perceived by other powers.

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, Ar

Product details

Published	Mar 22 2021
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	644
ISBN	9781793631923
Imprint	Lexington Books
Illustrations	1 graphs;
Dimensions	228 x 163 mm
Series	The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

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Mark Kramer

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Aryo Makko

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Peter Ruggenthaler

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Robert Austin

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Nicolas Badalassi

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Csaba Békés

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Günter Bischof

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Nadia Boyadjieva

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Thomas Bürgisser

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Franz Cede

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Anne Deighton

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Andrei Edemskii

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Thomas Fischer

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Maximilian Graf

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Jussi Hanhimäki

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Andreas Hilger

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Tvrtko Jakovina

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Alexey Komarov

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Mark Kramer

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Olof Kronvall

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Milorad Lazic

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Aryo Makko

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Kari Möttölä

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Olga Pavlenko

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Magnus Petersson

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Johanna Rainio-Niemi

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Kimmo Rentola

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Sacha Zala

[The] book absolutely delivers on its promise to provide a polycentric perspective on neutrality in Cold War Europe. It is going to be the first book to which to point students and scholars who are seeking a comprehensive history of the concept. In that context, I would be remiss not to mention the stellar bibliography of further reading, which lists not just the most important works on the subject, but also takes seriously the different historiographies of neutrality across Europe, and offers a rare collection of key works regardless of the language in which they were published. This book is a very welcome intervention indeed.

Hungarian Historical Review
This interesting collection of essays directs attention to the importance of smaller states in Europe as they negotiated degrees of autonomy and independence in the face of pressure from the great powers.

Journal of Modern History