Introduction.- Chapter 1: The Soviet Union's Rise as an International Energy Power: A Short History; Jeronim Perovic.- Part I: From World War to Cold War: Soviet Oil and Western Reactions.- Chapter 2: From Crisis to Plenty: The Soviet "Oil Campaign" under Stalin; Felix Rehschuh.- Chapter 3: Stalin's Oil Policy and the Iranian Crisis of 1945-1946; Nataliia Egorova.- Chapter 4: "Red Oil" and Western Reactions: The Case of Britain; Niklas Jensen-Eriksen.- Chapter 5: Debates at NATO and the EEC in Response to the Soviet "Oil Offensive" in the Early 1960s; Roberto Cantoni.- Part II: From Cold War to Détente: Soviet Energy and the Expansion of East-West Trade.- Chapter 6.- Decision-Making in the Soviet Energy Sector in post-Stalinist Times: The Failure of Khrushchev's Economic Modernization Strategy; Viacheslav Nekrasov.- Chapter 7: A Challenge to American Cold War Energy Politics? The US and Italy's Relations with the Soviet Union, 1958-1969; Elisabetta Bini.- Chapter 8: Gaz de France and Soviet Natural Gas: Balancing Technological Constraints with Political Considerations, 1950s to 1980s; Alain Beltran and Jean-Pierre Williot.- Chapter 9: Rise of Western Siberia and the Soviet-West German Energy Relationship during the 1970s; Dunja Krempin.- Chapter 10: From Linkage to Economic Warfare: Energy, Soviet-American Relations, and the End of the Cold War; David S. Painter.- Part III: From Crisis to Collapse: Soviet Energy and the Burden of Empire.- Chapter 11: Creating a Common Energy Space: The Building of the Druzhba Oil Pipeline; Falk Flade.- Chapter 12: Calculating the Burden of Empire: Soviet Oil, East-West Trade, and the End of the Socialist Bloc; Suvi Kansikas.- Chapter 13: Drifting Apart: Soviet Energy and the Cohesion of the Communist Bloc in the 1970s and 1980s; Lorenz Lüthi.- Chapter 14: The Fall of the Soviet Union and the Legacies of Energy Dependencies in Eastern Europe; Margarita M. Balmaceda.