1st Edition

Reassessing Cold War Europe

Edited By Sari Autio-Sarasmo, Katalin Miklóssy Copyright 2011
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents a comprehensive reassessment of Europe in the Cold War period, 1945-91. Contrary to popular belief, it shows that relations between East and West were based not only on confrontation and mutual distrust, but also on collaboration. The authors reveal that - despite opposing ideologies - there was in fact considerable interaction and exchange between different Eastern and Western... Read more

Notes on Contributors  Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations  List of tables  Acknowledgments  Introduction: The Cold War from a New Perspective - Sari Autio-Sarasmo and Katalin Miklóssy  1. The Soviet Union’s Acquisition of Western Technology after Stalin: Some Thoughts on People and Connections - Philip Hanson  2. Economic Interest in Soviet Post-War Policy on Finland - Tatiana Androsova  3. CoCom and Neutrality: Western Export Control Policies, Finland and the Cold War, 1949–1958 - Niklas Jensen-Eriksen  4. Knowledge through the Iron Curtain - Soviet Scientific-Technical Cooperation with Finland and West Germany - Sari Autio-Sarasmo  5. Learning from the French: The Modernisation of Soviet Winemaking, 1956-1961 - Jeremy Smith  6. Soft Contacts through the Iron Curtain - Riikka Nisonen-Trnka  7. Internal Transfer of Cybernetics and Informality in the Soviet Union: The Case of Lithuania - Eglė Rindzevičiūtė  8. New Advantages of Old Kinship Ties. Finnish–Hungarian Interactions in the 1970s - Katalin Miklóssy  9. Soviet Women, Cultural Exchange and the Women’s International Democratic Federation - Melanie Ilic  10. Overcoming Cold War Boundaries at the World Youth Festivals - Pia Koivunen  11. Room to Manoeuvre? National Interests and Coalition-Building in the CMEA, 1969–1974 - Suvi Kansikas  Bibliography  Index

Biography

Sari Autio-Sarasmo is a Senior Researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute (Finnish Centre of Russian and Eastern European Studies), University of Helsinki and Adjunct Professor at the University of Tampere, Finland.

Katalin Miklóssy is a Researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki and Adjunct Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland.