Non-alignment and Its Origins in Cold War Europe

Yugoslavia, Finland and the Soviet Challenge

Rinna Kullaa

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781848856240
• eBook ISBN: 9780857721389
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

After World War II, Europe stood divided between two clearly defined and competing ideologies and systems of government. Within this context of confrontation and mutual hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union, Rinna Kullaa provides a unique analysis of the attempts of two European states to successfully avoid absorption into the Soviet bloc. This book explores the relations of Yugoslavia and Finland both with the Soviet Union, and with each other, as they strove to preserve and create their independence. Whilst at first attempting the neutralism strategy employed by Finland, in the face of Soviet hostility, Tito's Yugoslavia instead led the way to the founding of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961. Kullaa's crucial analysis of the formative period of the Cold War will be of vital interest to students and researchers of International Relations, European History, the Cold War and diplomacy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. 1948: The Soviet test for Yugoslavia and the Tito-Stalin split
• 3. 1948: The Soviet test for Finland and the compromise on neutralism
• 4. The death of Stalin and the beginning of a beautiful Yugoslav-Finnish friendship
• 5. Khrushchev, Tito and Yugoslav/Finnish neutralism: surviving Hungary 1956
• 6. Freezing out Finland and Yugoslavia: the Soviet rifts of 1957–58
• 7. Conclusion and afterword: from neutralism to non-alignment
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index