The Baltic question during the Cold War
| Titel: | The Baltic question during the Cold War / ed. by John Hiden ... |
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| Veröffentlicht: | London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2008 |
| Umfang: | XI, 209 S. : Ill. ; 24cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Cold War history series ; 20 |
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| ISBN: | 0415371007 ; 9780415371001 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- Notes on contributors
- p. x
- 1
- Introduction: the Baltic question and the Cold War
- p. 1
- 2
- The Baltic states and Europe, 1918-1940
- p. 7
- Great Britain and the Baltic
- p. 8
- France and the Baltic
- p. 13
- The limits to entente policy in the Baltic region
- p. 15
- Germany and the Baltic
- p. 16
- 3
- The USA, Soviet Russia and the Baltic states: from recognition to the Cold War
- p. 21
- Early US contacts with the Baltic states
- p. 23
- The US de jure recognition of the Baltic states
- p. 24
- Baltic states as the factors of the Cold War
- p. 28
- 4
- Roosevelt and the dictators: the origin of the US non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states
- p. 33
- An international trustee and the road from isolation
- p. 34
- Soviet annexation and the reemergence of the Stimson Doctrine
- p. 38
- Interest groups and domestic politics
- p. 41
- Conclusion
- p. 42
- 5
- The politics of a principle: US non-recognition policy before, during and after the recovery of Baltic independence
- p. 45
- A policy of principle applied
- p. 45
- A policy put to the test - and maintained
- p. 50
- Non-recognition policy continues
- p. 54
- 6
- Soviet foreign policy during the Cold War: the Baltic factor
- p. 56
- 7
- Britain and the Baltic states: the late 1940s and the early 1990s
- p. 73
- 8
- French policy towards the Baltic states, 1939-1991: from abandonment to reunion
- p. 84
- The 1944 Franco-Soviet Pact
- p. 85
- The fourth Republic and the Baltic states: an inauspicious record
- p. 86
- Non-recognition of the annexation of the Baltic countries
- p. 87
- Franco-Soviet relations after 1958
- p. 88
- Detente takes hold under Pompidou
- p. 90
- The Helsinki Accords of 1975
- p. 90
- A change in tone under Mitterrand
- p. 93
- Ambivalence in Franco-Soviet relations
- p. 94
- A 'new way of thinking'
- p. 95
- The train is leaving. Should we get on board?
- p. 96
- 'In aid of victory'
- p. 98
- 9
- West Germany and the Baltic question during the Cold War
- p. 100
- West Germany's legal position on Baltic annexation
- p. 101
- The question of official (West) German-Baltic relations, 1950-1954
- p. 102
- Bonn, Moscow and the Baltic question, 1955-1961
- p. 113
- Neue Ostpolitik, Helsinki, human rights and the end of the Cold War
- p. 120
- Conclusions
- p. 125
- 10
- The Estonian Government-in-Exile: a controversial project of state continuation
- p. 134
- Diplomats and politicians
- p. 136
- Attempts to create Latvian and Lithuanian governments-in-exile
- p. 138
- The position of Norway and Sweden
- p. 138
- The re-established Republic of Estonia and the government-in-exile
- p. 139
- 11
- Emigres, dissidents and international organisations
- p. 144
- 12
- Between political rhetoric and Realpolitik calculations: Western diplomacy and the Baltic independence struggle in the Cold War endgame
- p. 156
- From internal to international problem: reforms, people power and legal aspects
- p. 158
- The Baltic struggle in the shadow of the German question, 1989/1990
- p. 162
- The Lithuanian April crisis, the 2+4 process and superpower relations
- p. 168
- Bloodshed in Vilnius and the disintegration of the USSR
- p. 174
- Conclusions
- p. 180
- 13
- The end of the 'Baltic question'? The Baltic states, Russia and the West in the post-Cold War era
- p. 189
- Index
- p. 204
