A History of Cold War Industrialisation: Finnish Shipbuilding between East and West

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This monograph explores the economic consequences of the Cold War, a polarised world order which politicised technology and shaped industrial development. It provides a detailed archival-based history of the Finnish shipbuilding industry (1952–1996), which f lourished, thanks to the special relationship between Finland and the Soviet Union. Overall, it shows how a small country, Finland, gained power during the Cold War through international economic and technological cooperation. The work places Finland in a firmly international context and assesses the state–industry relationship from five different angles: technopolitics, trade infrastructure, techno-scientific cooperation, industrial reorganisation, and state aid. It presents a novel way to analyse industrialisation as an interaction between institutional stabilisation and f luctuation within a techno-economic system. In so doing, it makes empirical, theoretical, and methodological contributions to the history of industrial change. A History of Cold War Industrialisation will be of interest to advanced students and scholars in economic history, maritime history, Cold War history, and international political economy. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures List of tables List of abbreviations 1 Introduction History of Cold War industrialisation Steel, money, and political power: outlining the research approach Sources of Cold War industrialisation Finlandisation and national myths Archival sources Scale and structure of the Cold War shipbuilding Navigational chart of the study 2 Before the Cold War shipbuilding Seafaring in the borderland before the Second World War From war to peaceful coexistence between Finland and the Soviet Union, 1944–1948 War reparations and industrial restructuring, 1944–1952 The foundations for the Cold War shipbuilding 3 Technology diplomacy: civilian ships carrying political weight and state leaders Entrance to the Soviet Arctic: building business relations on ice, 1952–1975 Icebreaker diplomacy: friendship, delivered, 1965–1976 Submersible War: technopolitics of state-industry demarcation, 1986–1987 Non-radiant nuclear ships: technopolitical radiance fading out, 1978–1989 Conclusion 4 Institutional interface to the Soviet market: bilateral trade and Finnish shipbuilding Institutional interface to the socialist planning Expanding shipyards and dependency on Soviet market, 1952–1974 Creating an illusion of stability, 1982–1985 Farewell to the special relationship, 1986–1990 Conclusions 5 Beyond business as usual: techno-scientific and industrial cooperation Re-branding capitalist companies: beginning of the cooperation Co-creating Arctic expertise: specialisation in technology with no domestic demand Scientific-technical cooperation: towards the Arctic offshore, 1977–1990 Intra-industry trade: buying friendship and goodwill Industrial cooperation: playing the role of an active partner, 1988–1990 Conclusions 6 From consensus to competition: reorganisation and rationalisation in shipbuilding Cooperation, consensus, and concentration Riding the waves of despair and prospects: first Shipbuilding Committee, 1977–1982 The turn of the tide: towards radical reorganisation, 1983–1986 Bargaining over state interventions, 1987–1988 Big bankruptcy changes the atmosphere, 1989 At the crossroad of national and international, 1990–1992 Conclusions 7 National competitiveness and international economy: shipyard financing and state aid Emergence of export financing and guarantees Foothold on the home market International competitiveness on the threshold of Europe Into a normal European country Conclusions: state and national competitiveness 8 Conclusions Bibliography Archival sources Oral history Interviews conducted by the author Other oral history sources Parliamentary documents Säännöskokoelman sopimussarja (SopS) [Finnish international treaties] Säädöskokoelma (Säädk) [collection of acts and decrees] Muut valtiopäiväasiakirjat (VP) [Other Parliamentary documents] Court Decisions Committee reports and unpublished studies Statistical collections, databases, and standards Newspapers and magazines Memoirs and diaries Literature Index