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"The key is in our hands:" Soviet energy strategy during Détente and the global oil crises of the 1970s

Perović, Jeronim; Krempin, Dunja
In: Historical Social Research, 39, 2014, 4, 113-144
Abstract: This essay traces the rise of the Soviet Union as Europe’s key energy supplier during the 1970s and early 1980s. While détente and the global energy crises proved to be accelerating factors in fostering East-West economic cooperation, it was ultimately the USSR’s own impeding “energy crisis” that prompted Soviet leaders to seek closer relations with the West. If the Soviet Union wanted to meet the growing energy demand at home, maintain export volumes to its Communist allies in Eastern Europe, and boost its role as an international energy player, it needed to counter fast-declining production ... more
Institution(s): GESIS
Topics: Erdgas | Erdöl | Energieversorgung | Krise | Energiepolitik | Kalter Krieg | wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit | Ost-West-Beziehungen | Entspannung | UdSSR | Sibirien | Wirtschaftsbeziehungen | Wirtschaftspolitik | Energieerzeugung
Document type: Zeitschriftenartikel
Database: SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository

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Perović, Jeronim, & Krempin, Dunja (2014). "The key is in our hands:" Soviet energy strategy during Détente and the global oil crises of the 1970s. In: Historical Social Research, 39, 2014, 4, 113-144. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.39.2014.4.113-144 urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-404860.

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