Chapter 3 The West and the Oil Shock

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Transliteration xii
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1 American Power and the Collapse of the Bretton Woods System 13
7. Chapter 2 Eastern European Development and Soviet Subsidies 39
8. Chapter 3 The West and the Oil Shock 62
9. Chapter 4 Twin Oil Crises behind the Iron Curtain 87
10. Chapter 5 The Travails of Jimmy Carter 110
11. Chapter 6 The Soviet Umbrella and the Volcker Shock 136
12. Chapter 7 Managing the Inversion 160
13. Chapter 8 The Collapse of the Soviet Welfare Empire 186
14. Conclusion 211
15. Notes 221
16. Bibliography 281
17. Index 299