
Energy Infrastructures in the Eastern Bloc
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Content
- Cover
- Title pages
- Content
- Figures and tables
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgement
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Prolog
- 1.2 Object of study
- 1.3 Literature overview
- 1.4 Research questions and theses
- 1.5 Methods and sources
- 1.6 Theoretical approach
- 1.6.1 Large Technological Systems
- 1.6.2 Critical assessment
- 1.6.3 Applied concepts
- 1.7 Outline
- 2 Energy infrastructures in pre-war Poland
- 2.1 The heritage of the Galician oil industry
- 2.2 Plans and endeavors in the 1920s
- 2.3 The Central Industrial District
- 2.4 Summary
- 3 Initiating cross-border energy infrastructures
- 3.1 Historical background
- 3.1.1 Implementation of planned economies
- 3.1.2 Modes of cooperation during post-war Stalinism
- 3.1.3 The Marshall Plan and the foundation of the CMEA
- 3.2 The beginning of cross-border cooperation
- 3.2.1 The energy-hungry Hungarian aluminum industry
- 3.2.2 Negotiating four-sided electricity deliveries
- 3.2.3 The pricing debate
- 3.3 The Standing Commission for Electric Energy
- 3.3.1 Gidroproekt's proposal
- 3.3.2 Teploelektroproekt's proposal
- 3.4 The electricity network Mir
- 3.4.1 The Central Dispatching Organization
- 3.4.2 The electricity hub Mukachevo
- 3.4.3 Early plans for East-West electricity deliveries
- 3.5 Summary
- 4 The Druzhba oil pipeline
- 4.1 Changing energy consumption in Eastern Europe
- 4.1.1 The chemicalization campaign
- 4.1.2 Oil import forecasts and the transport question
- 4.2 Pipeline construction
- 4.2.1 The planning procedure
- 4.2.2 Construction work
- 4.2.3 Western obstruction
- 4.2.4 Consequences of the Druzhba pipeline
- 4.3 Extending the pipeline network
- 4.3.1 The second Druzhba pipeline
- 4.3.2 Plans for additional in- and outlets
- 4.4 Summary
- 5 The So?iuz gas pipeline
- 5.1 The Complex Program
- 5.2 So?iuz as a flagship project?
- 5.2.1 Posting of workforce
- 5.2.2 Joint purchases of Western products
- 5.2.3 The International Investment Bank
- 5.2.4 Repercussions of the Polish debt crisis
- 5.3 Further system growth without integration
- 5.4 Summary
- 6 Stagnation in the East European nuclear energy sector
- 6.1 Impacts of the oil crises
- 6.1.1 Excursus: the discussion about Soviet subsidization
- 6.2 Ambitious plans for the electricity network Mir
- 6.2.1 New institutions and agreements
- 6.2.2 The General Scheme for the Long-Term Development of Mir
- 6.2.3 Joint construction of the NPP Khmelnit ? skii
- 6.3 The "NPP Zarnowiec under construction"
- 6.3.1 Initial plans for a Polish NPP
- 6.3.2 Crumbling cross-border supply chains
- 6.3.3 The Chernobyl disaster
- 6.3.4 Growing counterculture
- 6.3.5 The end of the "NPP Zarnowiec under construction"
- 6.4 Summary
- 7 Impacts of changing institutional frameworks
- 7.1 Electricity sector
- 7.1.1 Transition from Mir to ENTSO-E
- 7.1.2 Nuclear plans in Poland
- 7.2 Gas sector
- 7.2.1 Supply security versus transport autarky
- 7.2.2 The post-socialist gas infrastructure
- 7.3 Oil sector
- 7.3.1 Diversification attempts despite low vulnerability
- 7.3.2 The Druzhba pipeline: worn out or indispensable?
- 7.4 Summary
- 8 Conclusion
- 9 Color plates
- 10 Bibliography
- 10.1 Archival sources
- 10.2 Interviews
- 10.3 Official documents
- 10.4 Web-published material
- 10.5 Secondary literature
- 11 Index
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