Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-vii

List of Tables

pp viii-viii

Notes on Contributors

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgments

pp xiii-xiii

List of Abbreviations

pp xiv-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-8

Part I - Economic Policy of Neutral States in East–West Relations during the Cold War

pp 9-10

1 - ‘Austria – sieve to the East’: Austria's neutrality during the East–West economic war, 1945/8–1989

pp 11-25

2 - Swiss economic relations with the Soviet Union during the Cold War

pp 26-42

3 - Neutral Ireland and East–West trade, 1945–1955

pp 43-59

4 - The Second World War and the Cold War: influences on the Swedish post-war economy

pp 60-72

5 - Finland's Eastern trade: what do interviews tell?

pp 73-86

Part II - Austria's Relations with its Neighbours

pp 87-88

6 - Forty years of foreign trade between Austria and the CMEA area

pp 89-106

7 - Austria and the permeability of the Iron Curtain: from bridge-building to systemic change

pp 107-124

8 - Austrian business interests in socialist neighbouring countries: cloaked companies – CPA-related firms' Eastern trade

pp 125-141

9 - Co-operation through the Iron Curtain: economic relations between Austria and Hungary after the Second World War

pp 142-162

Part III - Trade Relations between Planned and Market Economies

pp 163-164

10 - The role of Czechoslovak trade with neutral countries in the period of escalating Cold War: the cases of Switzerland and Sweden, 1949–1953

pp 165-190

11 - Economic relations between Austria and the Soviet zone of occupation of Germany/German Democratic Republic, 1945–1973

pp 191-205

12 - Economic co-operation between Poland and neutral European countries in the Cold War period

pp 206-217

13 - Yugoslavia: economic aspects of the position between East and West

pp 218-226

Part IV - Business Links between Industries and Firms

pp 227-228

14 - Facilities, forms and areas of economic activities of firms in neutral and socialist countries during the Cold War: the Slovak case

pp 229-250

15 - Motor vehicles vs dollars: selling socialist cars in neutral markets. Some evidence from the Škoda Auto case

pp 251-269

16 - Iron and steel permeating through the Iron Curtain: Poland, Czechoslovakia, the GDR and neutral states

pp 270-288

Index of names

pp 289-290

Index of Geographical Names

pp 291-293