Reassessing Cold War Europe

This book presents a comprehensive reassessment of Europe in the Cold War period, 1945-91. It shows that relations between East and West were based not only on confrontation and mutual distrust, but also on collaboration. It reveals that - despite opposing ideologies - there was in fact considerable interaction and exchange between states, enterprises, associations, organisations and individuals.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

1. The Soviet Union's Acquisition of Western Technology after Stalin: Some Thoughts on People and Connections 2. Economic Interest in Soviet Post-War Policy on Finland 3. CoCom and Neutrality: Western Export Control Policies, Finland and the Cold War, 19491958 4. Knowledge through the Iron Curtain - Soviet Scientific-Technical Cooperation with Finland and West Germany 5. Learning from the French: The Modernisation of Soviet Winemaking, 1956-1961 6. Soft Contacts through the Iron Curtain 7. Internal Transfer of Cybernetics and Informality in the Soviet Union: The Case of Lithuania 8. New Advantages of Old Kinship Ties. FinnishHungarian Interactions in the 1970s 9. Soviet Women, Cultural Exchange and the Women's International Democratic Federation 10. Overcoming Cold War Boundaries at the World Youth Festivals 11. Room to Manoeuvre? National Interests and Coalition-Building in the CMEA, 19691974