The Baltic Question During the Cold WarJohn Hiden, Vahur Made, David J. Smith This edited volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the ‘Baltic question’, which arose within the context of the Cold War, and which has previously received little attention. This volume brings together a group of international specialists on the international history of northern Europe. It combines country-based chapters with more thematic approaches, highlighting above all the political dimension of the Baltic question, locating it firmly in the context of international politics. It explores the policy decision-making mechanisms which sustained the Western non-recognition of Soviet sovereignty over the Baltic States after 1940 and which eventually led to the legal restoration of the three countries’ statehood in 1991. The wider international ramifications of this doctrine of legal continuity are also examined, within the context both of the Cold War and of relations between post-soviet Russia and the enlarging ‘Euro-Atlantic area’. The book ends with an examination of how this Cold War legacy continues to shape relations between Russia and the West.
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Contents
The Baltic question and the Cold War | 1 |
2 The Baltic states and Europe 19181940 | 7 |
From recognition to the Cold War | 21 |
The origin of the US nonrecognition policy of the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states | 33 |
US nonrecognition policy before during and after the recovery of Baltic independence | 45 |
The Baltic factor | 56 |
The late 1940s and the early 1990s | 73 |
From abandonment to reunion | 84 |
9 West Germany and the Baltic question during the Cold War | 100 |
A controversial project of state continuation | 134 |
11 Émigrés dissidents and international organisations | 144 |
Western diplomacy and the Baltic independence struggle in the Cold War endgame | 156 |
The Baltic states Russia and the West in the postCold War era | 189 |
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The Baltic Question During the Cold War John Hiden,Vahur Made,David J. Smith No preview available - 2009 |
The Baltic Question During the Cold War John Hiden,Vahur Made,David J. Smith No preview available - 2008 |