Cold war energy : a transnational history of Soviet oil and gas
Jeronim Perović (Editor)
This book examines the role of Soviet energy during the Cold War. Based on hitherto little known documents from Western and Eastern European archives, it combines the story of Soviet oil and gas with general Cold War history. This volume breaks new ground by framing Soviet energy in a multi-national context, taking into account not only the view from Moscow, but also the perspectives of communist Eastern Europe, the US, NATO, as well as several Western European countries? namely Italy, France, and West Germany. This book challenges some of the long-standing assumptions of East-West bloc relations, as well as shedding new light on relations within the blocs regarding the issue of energy. By bringing together a range of junior and senior historians and specialists from Europe, Russia and the US, this book represents a pioneering endeavour to approach the role of Soviet energy during the Cold War in transnational perspective
1 online resource (xxix, 425 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
9783319495323, 3319495321
974372696
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Soviet Union's Rise as an International Energy Power: A Short History; Jeronim Perović
Part I: From World War to Cold War: Soviet Oil and Western Reactions
Chapter 2: From Crisis to Plenty: The Soviet "Oil Campaign" under Stalin; Felix Rehschuh
Chapter 3: Stalin's Oil Policy and the Iranian Crisis of 1945
1946; Nataliia Egorova
Chapter 4: "Red Oil" and Western Reactions: The Case of Britain; Niklas Jensen-Eriksen
Chapter 5: Debates at NATO and the EEC in Response to the Soviet "Oil Offensive" in the Early 1960s; Roberto Cantoni
Part II: From Cold War to Détente: Soviet Energy and the Expansion of East-West Trade
Chapter 6
Decision-Making in the Soviet Energy Sector in post-Stalinist Times: The Failure of Khrushchev's Economic Modernization Strategy; Viacheslav Nekrasov
Chapter 7: A Challenge to American Cold War Energy Politics? The US and Italy's Relations with the Soviet Union, 1958
1969; Elisabetta Bini
Chapter 8: Gaz de France and Soviet Natural Gas: Balancing Technological Constraints with Political Considerations, 1950s to 1980s; Alain Beltran and Jean-Pierre Williot
Chapter 9: Rise of Western Siberia and the Soviet-West German Energy Relationship during the 1970s; Dunja Krempin
Chapter 10: From Linkage to Economic Warfare: Energy, Soviet-American Relations, and the End of the Cold War; David S. Painter
Part III: From Crisis to Collapse: Soviet Energy and the Burden of Empire
Chapter 11: Creating a Common Energy Space: The Building of the Druzhba Oil Pipeline; Falk Flade
Chapter 12: Calculating the Burden of Empire: Soviet Oil, East-West Trade, and the End of the Socialist Bloc; Suvi Kansikas
Chapter 13: Drifting Apart: Soviet Energy and the Cohesion of the Communist Bloc in the 1970s and 1980s; Lorenz Lüthi
Chapter 14: The Fall of the Soviet Union and the Legacies of Energy Dependencies in Eastern Europe; Margarita M. Balmaceda
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