The Baltic Question During the Cold War

Smith, D.J., Hiden, J. and Made, V. (Eds.) (2008) The Baltic Question During the Cold War. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415371001

Abstract

This edited volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the ‘Baltic question’, which arose within the context of the Cold War and which has previously received little attention. This volume brings together a group of international specialists on the international history of northern Europe. Based on a combination of country-based and more thematic chapters, it locates the Baltic question firmly within the context of international politics. It explores the policy decision-making mechanisms which sustained the Western non-recognition of Soviet sovereignty over the Baltic States after 1940 and which eventually led to the legal restoration of the three countries’ statehood in 1991. The wider international ramifications of this doctrine of legal continuity are also examined, within the context both of the Cold War and of relations between post-Soviet Russia and the enlarging ‘Euro-Atlantic area’. This book ends with an examination of how this Cold War legacy continues to shape relations between Russia and the West.This book will be of considerable interest to students of International History, European Studies and International Relations.

• Item Type: Edited Books
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: UNSPECIFIED
• Subjects: D History General and Old World > DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics; J Political Science > JZ International relations
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Central and East European Studies
• Research Group: Glasgow Baltic Research Unit
• Publisher: Routledge
• ISBN: 9780415371001

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