A Good Example of Peaceful Coexistence? - The Soviet Union, Austria, and Neutrality, 1955-191

Contents

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

I. LAYING THE GROUNDWORK AND CHANGING NEUTRALITY, 1955–1960

1. Two Differing Concepts of Neutrality

2. The Post-State Treaty Honeymoon

3. …and Its Sudden End

4. Starting Anew: After the Hungarian Revolution

5. Summary: Soviet “Thaw” and the Making of a Neutral

II. OVERCAST, BUT FRIENDLY? 1961–1972

6. The USSR, Austria’s Rapprochement with the EEC, and the Convocation of the CSCE

7. The Czechoslovakian Crisis of 1968 and Austria’s Military Vulnerability

8. Making Economic and Cultural Relations Mutual

9. Summary: Soviet Containment and Encouragement; Austria’s Ostpolitik and Further “Neutralization”

III. DÉTENTE, THE HEYDAY OF MULTILATERALISM, AND THE LAST PEAK OF THE COLD WAR, 1973–1984

10. Political Relations and the Rise of Multilateralism

11. A Thorn in the Side: Personal and Cultural Contacts

12. Booming, but not Enough: Economic Relations

13. The Final Peak of the Cold War

14. Summary: Declining Soviet Interest in Neutrality despite Austria’s Efforts

IV. THE AFTERMATH, 1985–1991

15. The End of the Cold War, European Integration, and the Obsolescence of the Special Relationship

Conclusions

Documents

Soviet Ambassadors to Austria, Austrian Ambassadors to the USSR

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index