Cold War Energy A Transnational History of Soviet Oil and Gas [Hardcover]

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.

Introduction.- Chapter 1: The Soviet Unions Rise as an International Energy Power: A Short History; Jeronim Perovi.- 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: Stalins Oil Policy and the Iranian Crisis of 19451946; 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 D?tente: 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 Khrushchevs Economic Modernization Strategy; Viacheslav Nekrasov.- Chapter 7: A Challenge to American Cold War Energy Politics? The US and Italys Relations with the Soviet Union, 19581969; Elisabetta Bini.- Chapter 8: Gaz de France and Soviet Natural Gas: lc(