{"id":25604,"date":"2021-03-30T19:37:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T19:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=25604"},"modified":"2021-03-30T19:37:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T19:37:29","slug":"the-soviet-union-and-cold-war-neutrality-and-nonalignment-in-europe-edited-by-mark-kramer-aryo-makko-and-peter-ruggenthaler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=25604","title":{"rendered":"The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe. Edited by Mark Kramer, Aryo Makko and Peter Ruggenthaler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Contributions by Robert Austin; Nicolas Badalassi; Csaba B\u00e9k\u00e9s; G\u00fcnter Bischof; Nadia Boyadjieva; Thomas B\u00fcrgisser; Franz Cede; Anne Deighton; Andrei Edemskii; Thomas Fischer; Maximilian Graf; Jussi Hanhim\u00e4ki; Andreas Hilger; Tvrtko Jakovina; Alexey Komarov; Mark Kramer; Olof Kronvall; Milorad Lazic; Aryo Makko; Kari M\u00f6tt\u00f6l\u00e4; Olga Pavlenko; Magnus Petersson; Johanna Rainio-Niemi; Kimmo Rentola; Peter Ruggenthaler and Sacha Zala<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s sphere of influence. Based on extensive archival research, this volume offers state-of-the-art essays about relations between Europe\u2019s neutral states and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and how these relations were perceived by other powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction, <em>Peter Ruggenthaler and Aryo Makko<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PART I. Theories and Practices of Neutrality in Cold War Europe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 1: Austria\u2019s Neutrality\u2014Myth versus Reality, <em>Franz Cede<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 2: Swedish Neutrality, 1949\u20131991, <em>Olof Kronvall<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 3: Swiss Cold War Neutrality: Undisputed Principle of Foreign Policy, <em>Thomas Fischer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 4: Neutrality as Compromises: Finland\u2019s Cold War Neutrality, <em>Johanna Rainio-Niemi<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PART II. The Neutrals in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 5: Swedish Neutrality: The View from Moscow, <em>Alexey Komarov<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 6: Soviet Attitudes to Finnish Neutralism, 1947\u20131989, <em>Kimmo Rentola<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 7: A Hidden Danger for the Eastern Bloc? Neutral Austria in Soviet Policy from 1955 to the End of the Cold War, <em>Peter Ruggenthaler<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 8 The Soviet Union and Neutral Switzerland: Concerns and Hopes in 1989, <em>Olga Pavlenko<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PART III. The Soviet Union in the Policies of the European Neutrals<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 9: Old Fears, New Realities: Sweden and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, <em>Aryo Makko<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 10: From Aspiration to Consummation and Transition: Finnish Neutrality as Strategy in the Cold War, <em>Kari M\u00f6tt\u00f6l\u00e4<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 11: Indefinite Coexistence? Austria, the Soviet Union, and Ostpolitik after 1968, <em>Maximilian Graf<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 12: \u201cAlways Hit Back Right on the Kisser?\u201d: The Soviet Union in Swiss Foreign Policy during the Cold War, <em>Sacha Zala, Thomas B\u00fcrgisser, and Thomas Fischer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PART IV. Departures from the Eastern Bloc to Neutrality<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 13: Soviet-Yugoslav Relations, 1948\u20131955: From Conflict to Rapprochement, <em>Andrei Edemskii<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 14: The Neutrality of Hungary during the 1956 Revolution, <em>Csaba B\u00e9k\u00e9s<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 15: Albania: Exploiting Relevance and Irrelevance during the Cold War, <em>Robert C. Austin<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 16: The USSR and Yugoslavia\u2019s Policy of Nonalignment, 1955\u20131980, <em>Nadia Boyadjieva<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 17: How Could the Nonaligned Save Yugoslavia?: The 1989 Summit of the Non-Aligned Countries in Belgrade and the Breakup of Yugoslavia, <em>Tvrtko Jakovina<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PART V. Western Perspectives on Neutrality and Neutral-Soviet Relations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 18: The United States and Neutrality in Scandinavia, <em>Jussi M. Hanhim\u00e4ki<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 19: United States and Austrian Neutrality during the Cold War, <em>G\u00fcnter Bischof<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 20: The United Kingdom and the European Neutrals during the Cold War, <em>Anne Deighton<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 21: France, the European Neutrals, and the USSR, 1947\u20131981, <em>Nicolas Badalassi<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 22: Neutrality in the Cold War: Views from West Germany, <em>Andreas Hilger<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 23: NATO and the Neutrals on the Flanks: Finland, Sweden, and Yugoslavia, <em>Milorad Lazic and Magnus Petersson<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PART VI. Conclusions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 24: The USSR and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe, <em>Mark Kramer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mark Kramer<\/strong> is director of Cold War studies at Harvard University and senior fellow at Harvard\u2019s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aryo Makko<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Peter Ruggenthaler<\/strong> is deputy director and senior research fellow at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on War\u2019s Consequences, Austria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Lexington Books<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pages: 644<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>March 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9781793631930\/The-Soviet-Union-and-Cold-War-Neutrality-and-Nonalignment-in-Europe\">https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9781793631930\/The-Soviet-Union-and-Cold-War-Neutrality-and-Nonalignment-in-Europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Neutrality.jpg?fit=315%2C506&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52742,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52742","url_meta":{"origin":25604,"position":0},"title":"The Violent 1950s: Towards a New History of the Global \u201cPostwar\u201d Decade, Washington, DC, 25th\u201326th February 2027 (Deadline: 12th June 2026)","author":"Filip \u0160imunjak","date":"4. svibnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"This international conference aims to reassess the so-called postwar years. 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