1st Edition

Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in the Early Cold War Reconciliation, comradeship, confrontation, 1953-1957

By Svetozar Rajak Copyright 2011
288 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides a comprehensive insight into one of the key episodes of the Cold War – the process of reconciliation between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. At the time, this process had shocked the World as much as the violent break-up of their relations did in 1948. This book provides an explanation for the collapse of the process of normalization of Yugoslav-Soviet that occurred at the... Read more

Introduction  1. Overtures  2. Normalisation  3. Comradeship  4. Contention  5. Confrontation  Conclusion

Biography

Svetozar Rajak is the Associate Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the Academic Director of the LSE IDEAS Centre for International Affairs, Diplomacy and Strategy at the LSE and is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Cold War History.

‘This book by Svetozar Rajak is an extremely valuable contribution to that somewhat under-researched scholarship on relations between Yugoslavia and the USSR in the early Cold War period. [...] Rajak has written a potent, nuanced and diligently researched volume that stands out as an important contribution to the study of the Cold War. Being rather innovative in its approach, placing emphasis on primary sources and arguing a strong case in a well-substantiated manner, the volume is full of strengths in covering its topic.’ - Vladimir Dordevic, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, Political Studies Review, Vol 10:3, Sept. 2012