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Cold War Energy

A Transnational History of Soviet Oil and Gas

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Editors:
  1. Jeronim Perović

    1. Department of History, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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  • Contributes to a largely under-researched topic in the historiography of the Cold War and Soviet gas and oil

  • Includes newly available Western and Eastern European archival material

  • Brings together a range of historians from the US, Europe and Russia to approach these interconnected histories from a multi-national perspective

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
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  2. The Soviet Union’s Rise as an International Energy Power: A Short History

    • Jeronim Perović
    Pages 1-43

  3. From World War to Cold War: Soviet Oil and Western Reactions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. From Crisis to Plenty: The Soviet “Oil Campaign” Under Stalin

      • Felix Rehschuh
      Pages 47-77

    3. Stalin’s Oil Policy and the Iranian Crisis of 1945–1946

      • Nataliia Egorova
      Pages 79-104

    4. “Red Oil” and Western Reactions: The Case of Britain

      • Niklas Jensen-Eriksen
      Pages 105-130

    5. Debates at NATO and the EEC in Response to the Soviet “Oil Offensive” in the Early 1960s

      • Roberto Cantoni
      Pages 131-161

  4. From Cold War to Détente: Soviet Energy and the Expansion of East–West Trade

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Decision-Making in the Soviet Energy Sector in Post-Stalinist Times: The Failure of Khrushchev’s Economic Modernization Strategy

      • Viacheslav Nekrasov
      Pages 165-199

    3. A Challenge to Cold War Energy Politics? The US and Italy’s Relations with the Soviet Union, 1958–1969

      • Elisabetta Bini
      Pages 201-230

    4. Gaz de France and Soviet Natural Gas: Balancing Technological Constraints with Political Considerations, 1950s to 1980s

      • Alain Beltran, Jean-Pierre Williot
      Pages 231-251

    5. Rise of Western Siberia and the Soviet–West German Energy Relationship During the 1970s

      • Dunja Krempin
      Pages 253-281

    6. From Linkage to Economic Warfare: Energy, Soviet–American Relations, and the End of the Cold War

      • David S. Painter
      Pages 283-318

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 421-425
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About this book

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.

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“The book is a welcome, rigorous, and much needed in-depth exploration of energy politics during the Cold War in Europe. Its geographical shortcomings are an invitation to continue and expand the study of the energy/Cold War nexus and its history and legacies, across and beyond its European core.” (Maurizio G. Totaro, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 70 (8), 2018)



“This volume is quite impressive. It covers much new territory, effectively utilizes previously inaccessible materials, and offers nuanced insights into Soviet and CMEA energy policies during the Cold War. … this book comes at an eminently fitting time.” (Nicholas Ostrum, EuropeNow, europenowjournal.org, December, 2017)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Jeronim Perović

About the editor

Jeronim Perović is Professor of Eastern European History at the Department of History of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He specializes in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, as well as the history of the Balkans.

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