The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe

Mark Kramer, Aryo Makko, Peter Ruggenthaler

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978750500
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I THEORIES AND PRACTICES OF NEUTRALITY IN COLD WAR EUROPE
• 1 Austria’s Neutrality—Myths versus Reality
• 2 Swedish Neutrality,1949–1991
• 3 Swiss Cold War Neutrality
• 4 Neutrality as Compromises
• Part II THE NEUTRALS IN SOVIET POLICY FROM STALIN TO GORBACHEV
• 5 Swedish Neutrality
• 6 Soviet Attitudes to Finnish Neutralism, 1947–1989
• 7 A Hidden Danger for the Eastern Bloc?
• 8 The Soviet Union and Neutral Switzerland
• Part III THE SOVIET UNION IN THE POLICIES OF THE EUROPEAN NEUTRALS
• 9 Old Fears, New Realities
• 10 From Aspiration to Consummation and Transition
• 11 Indefinite Coexistence?
• 12 ”Always Hit Back Right on the Kisser”?
• Part IV DEPARTURES FROM THE EASTERN BLOC TO NEUTRALITY
• 13 Soviet–Yugoslav Relations, 1948–1955
• 14 The Neutrality of Hungary during the 1956 Revolution
• 15 Albania: Exploiting Relevance and Irrelevance During the Cold War
• 16 The USSR and Yugoslavia’s Policy of Nonalignment, 1955–1980
• 17 How Could the Nonaligned Save Yugoslavia?
• Part V WESTERN PERSPECTIVES ON NEUTRALITY AND NEUTRAL-SOVIET RELATIONS
• 18 United States and Neutrality in Scandinavia
• 19 The United States and Austrian Neutrality during the Cold War
• 20 The United Kingdom and the European Neutrals during the Cold War
• 21 France, the European Neutrals, and the USSR, 1947–1981
• 22 Neutrality in the Cold War
• 23 NATO and the Neutrals on the Flanks
• Part VI CONCLUSIONS
• 24 The USSR and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors