Socialist Countries Face the European Community

Suvi Kansikas received her doctorate at the University of Helsinki. Currently she is a researcher at the Academy of Finland’s Centre of Excellence Choices of Russian Modernisation at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.

• Contents: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance – Europe is Divided Into Two Blocs – A Frustrated Start for CMEA Integration – Soviet Leaders Confront Pressure from Within – Successful Tactics or False Optimism? – The CMEA Begins Rapprochement Hesitantly – The CMEA Concedes to Economic Realities.

"Kansikas has very profitably reminded us the politically important role commerce played in knitting the continent back together again after its division in the 1940s, and has advanced our understanding of the ways in which technology and economic organization constitute and truncate political power." (Oscar Sanchez-Sibony, Slavic Review, vol. 75, no. 3 2016)