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.

[The] book absolutely delivers on its promise to provide a polycentric perspective on neutrality in Cold War Europe. It is going to be the first book to which to point students and scholars who are seeking a comprehensive history of the concept. In that context, I would be remiss not to mention the stellar bibliography of further reading, which lists not just the most important works on the subject, but also takes seriously the different historiographies of neutrality across Europe, and offers a rare collection of key works regardless of the language in which they were published. This book is a very welcome intervention indeed.

• 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, Ar