Red Gas Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence [Hardcover]

This book applies a systems and risk perspective on international energy relations, author Per H?gselius investigates how and why governments, businesses, engineers and other actors sought to promote  and oppose the establishment of an extensive East-West natural gas regime that seemed to overthrow the fundamental logic of the Cold War.Before Siberia: The Rise of the Soviet Natural Gas Industry Towards an Export Strategy Austria: The Pioneer Bavaria's Quest for Energy Independence From Contract to Flow: The Soviet-Austrian Experience Willy Brandt: Natural Gas as Ostpolitik Constructing the Export Infrastructure Trusting the Enemy: Importing Soviet Gas in Practice Scaling Up or Phasing Out? From Soviet to Russian Natural Gas

Red Gas explores the origins and development of the Soviet Unions (natural) gas industry during World War II, and its trade with Western Europe during the Cold War. & This is the first comprehensive, archival-based study in English of this fascinating and important topic. & Overall, Red Gas does answer the questions it poses, making for informative and enjoyable reading that researchers and policy analysts of Russian energy, Russo-European relations, and the Cold War will find valuable. (Boris Barkanov, The Russian Review, Vol. 77 (1), January, 2018)

Red Gas is organized into twelve chapters with the first and the last serving as an introduction and conclusion. & Red Gas is a timely study which highlights how local, national and international phenomenon created a truly transnational system with a level of detail often missing from similar studies. & this book is a great resource not only for scholars of the European, Soviet and post-Soviet region but Europe more generally. (Jacob Feygin, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 51 (1), 2016)

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