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In this magisterial and pathbreaking work, Csaba Bekes shares
decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of
Hungary's international relations with both the Soviet Bloc and the
West from the end of World War II to the dissolution of the Soviet
Union in 1991. Unlike many studies of the global Cold War that
focus on East-West relationships-often from the vantage point of
the West-Bekes grounds his work in the East, drawing on
little-used, non-English sources. As such, he offers a new and
sweeping Cold War narrative using Hungary as a case study,
demonstrating that the East-Central European states have played a
much more important role in shaping both the Soviet bloc's overall
policy and the East-West relationship than previously assumed.
Similarly, he shows how the relationship between Moscow and its
allies, as well as among the bloc countries, was much more complex
than it appeared to most observers in the East and the West alike.
This book compares the various aspects - political, military
economic - of Soviet occupation in Austria, Hungary and Romania.
Using documents found in Austrian, Hungarian, Romanian and Russian
archives the authors argue that the nature of Soviet foreign policy
has been misunderstood. Existing literature has focused on the
Soviet foreign policy from a political perspective; when and why
Stalin made the decision to introduce Bolshevik political systems
in the Soviet sphere of influence. This book will show that the
Soviet conquest of East-Central Europe had an imperial dimension as
well and allowed the Soviet Union to use the territory it occupied
as military and economic space. The final dimension of the book
details the tragically human experiences of Soviet occupation:
atrocities, rape, plundering and deportations.
If there had been all-news television channels in 1956, viewers
around the world would have been glued to their sets between
October 23 and November 4. This book tells the story of the
Hungarian Revolution in 120 original documents, ranging from the
minutes of the first meeting of Khrushchev with Hungarian bosses
after Stalin's death in 1953 to Yeltsin's declaration made in 1992.
Other documents include letters from Yuri Andropov, Soviet
Ambassador in Budapest during and after the revolt. The great
majority of the material appears in English for the first time, and
almost all come from archives that were inaccessible until the
1990s.
The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe
examines how the neutral European countries and the Soviet Union
interacted after World War II. Amid the Cold War division of Europe
into Western and Eastern blocs, several long-time neutral countries
abandoned neutrality and joined NATO. Other countries remained
neutral but were still perceived as a threat to the Soviet Union's
sphere of influence. Based on extensive archival research, this
volume offers state-of-the-art essays about relations between
Europe's neutral states and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
and how these relations were perceived by other powers.
In this magisterial and pathbreaking work, Csaba Bekes shares
decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of
Hungary's international relations with both the Soviet Bloc and the
West from the end of World War II to the dissolution of the Soviet
Union in 1991. Unlike many studies of the global Cold War that
focus on East-West relationships-often from the vantage point of
the West-Bekes grounds his work in the East, drawing on
little-used, non-English sources. As such, he offers a new and
sweeping Cold War narrative using Hungary as a case study,
demonstrating that the East-Central European states have played a
much more important role in shaping both the Soviet bloc's overall
policy and the East-West relationship than previously assumed.
Similarly, he shows how the relationship between Moscow and its
allies, as well as among the bloc countries, was much more complex
than it appeared to most observers in the East and the West alike.
The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe
examines neutral countries in Europe at a time when most
contemporaries had little faith in neutrality. During the split
between Western and Eastern blocs, several long-time neutral
countries abandoned the policy of neutrality and joined NATO. Other
countries which remained neutral were perceived as a threat to the
Soviet Union's sphere of influence. Based on extensive archival
research, this volume offers state-of-the-art research about the
relations between Europe's neutral states and the Soviet Union
during the Cold War and how these relations were perceived by other
powers.
This book compares the various aspects - political, military
economic - of Soviet occupation in Austria, Hungary and Romania.
Using documents found in Austrian, Hungarian, Romanian and Russian
archives the authors argue that the nature of Soviet foreign policy
has been misunderstood. Existing literature has focused on the
Soviet foreign policy from a political perspective; when and why
Stalin made the decision to introduce Bolshevik political systems
in the Soviet sphere of influence. This book will show that the
Soviet conquest of East-Central Europe had an imperial dimension as
well and allowed the Soviet Union to use the territory it occupied
as military and economic space. The final dimension of the book
details the tragically human experiences of Soviet occupation:
atrocities, rape, plundering and deportations.
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