title: The End of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Fujisawa, Jun
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-09-19T10:27:34Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-09-19T10:27:34Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-06
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Fujisawa J. The End of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2022, vol. 67, issue 2, рp. 532–549.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2022.213
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37787
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This paper analyzes the negotiations within the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
  during the final years of its existence, focusing on the Soviet reform proposals and
  M. S. Gorbachev’s vision of the “Common European Home” as well as on Eastern European
  reaction to them. In the second half of the 1980s, Gorbachev tried to found a “unified market”
  for the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance by introducing a market-oriented reform
  of the organization. However, this attempt did not materialize because of the East German
  and Romanian objections. After the collapse of Eastern European socialist regimes in 1989,
  the Soviet leadership urged the member-states to accelerate the reform of this international
  organization, hoping to achieve the pan-European economic integration through close
  cooperation between the totally reformed Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and the
  European Community. Although the Central European countries, namely Czechoslovakia,
  Hungary, and Poland, aspired to join the EC individually, they agreed to participate in a
  successor organization of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance because the EC
  was not ready to accept them. Accordingly, by the beginning of 1991, all the member-states
  agreed to establish a consultative organization, which would be named the Organization for
  International Economic Cooperation). However, as the Soviet Union failed to sustain trade
  with the Central European countries, the three countries lost interest in the project. As a
  result, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance was disbanded without any successor
  organization. In other words, it did not collapse automatically after 1989 but came to an end as
  a result of various factors, such as rapidly declining trade between the member-states, Western
  disinterest in the cooperation with it, and the Central European policy changes.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation under grant 19-78-10023 (“Friendship of
  Convenience: Incentives and Justifications of the Integration of the CMEA’s European member-countries”).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 67; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet Union
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Eastern Europe
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Czechoslovakia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Hungary
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Poland
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: European Community
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The End of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
resources.filename: 13.pdf
resources.url: https://dspace.spbu.ru/bitstream/11701/37787/1/13.pdf
resources.format: Adobe PDF
resources.size: 704,59 kB