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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Müller, Wolfgang

Titel

A Good Example of Peaceful Coexistence? : The Soviet Union, Austria, and Neutrality, 1955-1991

Ort / Verlag

Vienna : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This monograph, based on newly declassified sources from Western and Russian archives as well as on communist texts about international law and neutrality, is the first English-language account of Soviet policy towards neutral yet capitalist Austria during the Cold War. In order to make neutrality a model for the West, the Kremlin presented the unique Soviet-Austrian relationship as "a good example of peaceful coexistence" and a showcase for the benefits a Western state might reap by declaring neutrality. This honor, however, had strings attached: The communist doctrine of neutrality contained obligations that were expected to make it possible to exploit neutral states as instruments of Soviet policy and bring them nearer the socialist bloc