A Cold War Over Austria

Author : Gerald Stourzh
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498587879
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cold War over Austria written by Gerald Stourzh and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a comprehensive examination of the East–West occupation of Austria from the end of World War II to the signing of the Austrian State Treaty in 1955. Examining US, Soviet, British, French, and Austrian sources, the authors trace the complex negotiation process that led to the signing of the treaty.

Author : Günter Bischof
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Austria in the First Cold War, 1945-55 written by Günter Bischof and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first Cold War (1945-55) the superpower struggle over the geostrategically vital and economically depressed Austria could have ended in a divided country (like in Germany), but due to shrewd Austrian diplomacy resulted in a unified and neutralized country.

Author : G. Bischof
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230372317
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Austria in the First Cold War, 1945-55 written by G. Bischof and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-08-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the first Cold War in the early 1950s, the Western powers worried that occupied Austria might become 'Europe's Korea' and feared a Communist takeover. The Soviets exploited their occupation zone for maximum reparations. American economic aid guaranteed Austria's survival and economic reconstruction. Their military assistance turned Austria into a 'secret ally' of the West. Austrian diplomacy played a vital role in securing the Austrian treaty in bilateral negotiations with Stalin's successors in the Kremlin demonstrating the leverage of the weak in the Cold War.

Author : Günter Bischof
Publisher : University of New Orleans Press
ISBN 13 : 9781608011162
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Austrias Intl Pos After End Cold War (Contemporary Austrian Studies, Vol 22) written by Günter Bischof and published by University of New Orleans Press. This book was released on 2013-09-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inventive collection explores Austria's international position after the end of the Cold War. Austria joined the European Union in 1995 and aligned its foreign policy with the EU. Unlike its neighbors to the East, it did not join NATO but continued its policy of neutrality. Austria strengthened its investments in Central and Eastern Europe. Austria experienced devastating wars in its neighborhood in the Balkans and Austrian diplomats served as mediators in the region.

Author : Monika Platzer
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
ISBN 13 : 9783038601753
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War and Architecture written by Monika Platzer and published by Park Publishing (WI). This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Cold war and architecture. Contributions to Austria's democratization after 1945", october 17, 2019-february 24, 2020 at Architekturzentrum Wien.

Author : Audrey Kurth Cronin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501733885
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Power Politics and the Struggle over Austria, 1945–1955 written by Audrey Kurth Cronin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By virtue of its geographical and historical position, postwar Austria was condemned to a prominent role in the plans of both the East and the West. In this account of an unusual episode in the Cold War, Audrey Kurth Cronin examines the negotiations over Austria and the Soviet Union's sudden and surprising decision to withdraw its troops and accept the country as a neutral Western state, after having rejected any settlement for eight years. Drawing on a wealth of recently declassified British and American documents and on interviews with key Austrian participants, Cronin analyzes the events leading up to the 1955 Austrian State Treaty and, in the process, strengthens our understanding of current East-West relations. Her account of the creation of a neutral state in the heart of a divided Europe will be important reading for all who are concerned with security affairs, international relations, and the history of the Cold War.

Author : James Jay Carafano
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585442133
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waltzing Into the Cold War written by James Jay Carafano and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These halting efforts, complicated by the difficulties of managing the occupation along with Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, exacerbated an already monumental undertaking and fueled the looming Cold War confrontation between East and West.".

Author : Reinhold Wagnleitner
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 080786613X
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coca-Colonization and the Cold War written by Reinhold Wagnleitner and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinhold Wagnleitner argues that cultural propaganda played an enormous part in integrating Austrians and other Europeans into the American sphere during the Cold War. In Coca-Colonization and the Cold War, he shows that 'Americanization' was the result not only of market forces and consumerism but also of systematic planning on the part of the United States. Wagnleitner traces the intimate relationship between the political and economic reconstruction of a democratic Austria and the parallel process of cultural assimilation. Initially, U.S. cultural programs had been developed to impress Europeans with the achievements of American high culture. However, popular culture was more readily accepted, at least among the young, who were the primary target group of the propaganda campaign. The prevalence of Coca-Cola and rock 'n' roll are just two examples addressed by Wagnleitner. Soon, the cultural hegemony of the United States became visible in nearly all quarters of Austrian life: the press, advertising, comics, literature, education, radio, music, theater, and fashion. Hollywood proved particularly effective in spreading American cultural ideals. For Europeans, says Wagnleitner, the result was a second discovery of America. This book is a translation of the Austrian edition, published in 1991, which won the Ludwig Jedlicka Memorial Prize.

Author : Günter Bischof
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333794821
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Austria in the First Cold War, 1945-55 written by Günter Bischof and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Johanna Rainio-Niemi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135042403
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ideological Cold War written by Johanna Rainio-Niemi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens new perspectives into the Cold War ideological confrontations. Using Austria and Finland as an example, it shows how the Cold War battles for the hearts and minds of the people also influenced policies in countries that wished to stay outside the conflict. Following the model of older European neutrals, Austria and Finland sought to combine neutrality with democracy. The combination was eagerly challenged by ideological Cold Warriors on both sides of the divide and questioned at home too. Was neutrality risking the neutrals’ commitment to democracy, or did the commitment to the western type of democracy threaten their commitment to neutrality? Confronting these doubts grew into an organic part of practicing neutrality in the Cold War world. The neutrals needed to be exceptionally clear regarding the ideological foundations of their neutrality. Successful neutrality required a great deal of conceptual consistence and domestic unanimity. None of this was pre-given in Austria or Finland. However, in the model of Switzerland and Sweden, (armed) neutrality was systematically integrated with the official state ideology and promoted as a part of national identity. Legacies of these policies outlived the end of the Cold War.