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A Good Example of Peaceful Coexistence?
Wolfgang Mueller
其他書名
The Soviet Union, Austria, and Neutrality 1955-1991
出版
ÖAW, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
, 2011
主題
History / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
History / United States / 20th Century
ISBN
3700168985
9783700168980
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6uCZZwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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. While Austrian leaders were careful to avoid these pitfalls, Soviet interventions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia in 1956 and 1968 and interference into Austria's interpretation of neutral policy could not but deeply affect Austrian policy and the Soviet-Austrian honeymoon.