Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe

Mark Kramer is director of Cold War studies at Harvard University and senior fellow at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.Aryo Makko 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.Peter Ruggenthaler is deputy director and senior research fellow at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on War’s Consequences.

• PART I. Theories and Practices of Neutrality in Cold War EuropeChapter 1: Austria’s Neutrality— Myth versus RealityChapter 3: Swedish Neutrality, 1949–91Chapter 4: Swiss Cold War Neutrality: Undisputed Principle of Foreign PolicyPART II. The Neutrals in Soviet Policy from Stalin to GorbachevChapter 5: Swedish Neutrality: The View from MoscowChapter 6: Soviet Attitudes to Finnish Neutralism, 1947–1989Chapter 7: A Hidden Danger for the Eastern Bloc? Neutral Austria in the Soviet Policy from 1955 to the End of the Cold WarChapter 8: The Soviet Union and Neutral Switzerland: Concerns and Hopes in 1989PART III. The Soviet Union in the Policies of the European NeutralsChapter 9: Old Fears, New Realities: Sweden and the Soviet Union during the Cold WarChapter 10: From Aspiration to Consummation and Transition: Finnish Neutrality as Strategy in the Cold WarChapter 11: Infinite Coexistence? Austria, the Soviet Union, and Ostpolitik after 1968Chapter 12: “Always Hit Back Right on the Kisser?” The Soviet Union in Swiss Foreign Policy during the Cold WarPART IV. Departures from the Eastern Bloc to NeutralityChapter 13: Soviet-Yugoslav Relations, 1948–1955: From Conflict to RapprochementChapter 14: The Neutrality of Hungary during the 1956 RevolutionChapter 15: Albania: Exploiting Relevance and Irrelevance During the Cold WarChapter 16: How Could the Non-Aligned Save Yugoslavia? The 1989 Summit of the Non-Aligned Countries in Belgrade and the Breakup of YugoslaviaPART V. Western Perspectives on Neutrality and Neutral-Soviet RelationsChapter 17: The United States and Neutrality in ScandinaviaChapter 18: United States and Austrian Neutrality during the Cold WarChapter 19: The United Kingdom and the European Neutrals during the Cold WarChapter 20: France, the European Neutrals and the USSR, 1947–1981Chapter 21: Neutrality in the Cold War: A View from West GermanyChapter 22: NATO and the Neutrals on the Flanks: Finland, Sweden and Yugoslavia