Cold War Energy

Chapter 1 The Soviet Union’s Rise as an International Energy Power: A Short History

Chapter 2 From Crisis to Plenty: The Soviet “Oil Campaign” Under Stalin

Chapter 3 Stalin’s Oil Policy and the Iranian Crisis of 1945–1946

Chapter 4 “Red Oil” and Western Reactions: The Case of Britain

Chapter 5 Debates at NATO and the EEC in Response to the Soviet “Oil Offensive” in the Early 1960s

Chapter 6 Decision-Making in the Soviet Energy Sector in Post-Stalinist Times: The Failure of Khrushchev’s Economic Modernization Strategy

Chapter 7 A Challenge to Cold War Energy Politics? The US and Italy’s Relations with the Soviet Union, 1958–1969

Chapter 8 Gaz de France and Soviet Natural Gas: Balancing Technological Constraints with Political Considerations, 1950s to 1980s

Chapter 9 Rise of Western Siberia and the Soviet–West German Energy Relationship During the 1970s

Chapter 10 From Linkage to Economic Warfare: Energy, Soviet–American Relations, and the End of the Cold War

Chapter 11 Creating a Common Energy Space: The Building of the Druzhba Oil Pipeline

Chapter 12 Calculating the Burden of Empire: Soviet Oil, East–West Trade, and the End of the Socialist Bloc

Chapter 13 Drifting Apart: Soviet Energy and the Cohesion of the Communist Bloc in the 1970s and 1980s

Chapter 14 The Fall of the Soviet Union and the Legacies of Energy Dependencies in Eastern Europe