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, Austria.

• Introduction, Peter Ruggenthaler and Aryo MakkoPART I. Theories and Practices of Neutrality in Cold War EuropeChapter 1: Austria’s Neutrality—Myth versus Reality, Franz CedeChapter 2: Swedish Neutrality, 1949–1991, Olof KronvallChapter 3: Swiss Cold War Neutrality: Undisputed Principle of Foreign Policy, Thomas FischerChapter 4: Neutrality as Compromises: Finland’s Cold War Neutrality, Johanna Rainio-NiemiPART II. The Neutrals in Soviet Policy from Stalin to GorbachevChapter 5: Swedish Neutrality: The View from Moscow, Alexey KomarovChapter 6: Soviet Attitudes to Finnish Neutralism, 1947–1989, Kimmo RentolaChapter 7: A Hidden Danger for the Eastern Bloc? Neutral Austria in Soviet Policy from 1955 to the End of the Cold War, Peter RuggenthalerChapter 8 The Soviet Union and Neutral Switzerland: Concerns and Hopes in 1989, Olga PavlenkoPART III. The Soviet Union in the Policies of the European NeutralsChapter 9: Old Fears, New Realities: Sweden and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, Aryo MakkoChapter 10: From Aspiration to Consummation and Transition: Finnish Neutrality as Strategy in the Cold War, Kari MöttöläChapter 11: Indefinite Coexistence? Austria, the Soviet Union, and Ostpolitik after 1968, Maximilian GrafChapter 12: “Always Hit Back Right on the Kisser?”: The Soviet Union in Swiss Foreign Policy during the Cold War, Sacha Zala, Thomas Bürgisser, and Thomas FischerPART IV. Departures from the Eastern Bloc to NeutralityChapter 13: Soviet-Yugoslav Relations, 1948–1955: From Conflict to Rapprochement, Andrei EdemskiiChapter 14: The Neutrality of Hungary during the 1956 Revolution, Csaba BékésChapter 15: Albania: Exploiting Relevance and Irrelevance during the Cold War, Robert C. AustinChapter 16: The USSR and Yugoslavia’s Policy of Nonalignment, 1955–1980, Nadia BoyadjievaChapter 17: How Could the Nonaligned Save Yugoslavia?: The 1989 Summit of the Non-Aligned Countries in Belgrade and the Breakup of Yugoslavia, Tvrtko JakovinaPART V. Western Perspectives on Neutrality and Neutral-Soviet RelationsChapter 18: The United States and Neutrality in Scandinavia, Jussi M. HanhimäkiChapter 19: United States and Austrian Neutrality during the Cold War, Günter BischofChapter 20: The United Kingdom and the European Neutrals during the Cold War, Anne DeightonChapter 21: France, the European Neutrals, and the USSR, 1947–1981, Nicolas BadalassiChapter 22: Neutrality in the Cold War: Views from West Germany, Andreas HilgerChapter 23: NATO and the Neutrals on the Flanks: Finland, Sweden, and Yugoslavia, Milorad Lazic and Magnus PeterssonPART VI. ConclusionsChapter 24: The USSR and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe, Mark Kramer