Contents -- Preface -- A Baltic Prelude to the Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Annexation of the Baltic States, 1939-1941 Kari Alenius -- On the Razor's Edge: The US Foreign Policy and the Baltic Issue in 1940-45 Eero Medijainen -- 'A Really Dead Issue': the Baltic Question in the European 'Non-Settlement' at the Start of the Cold War Kaarel Piirimäe -- Baltic Council of the European Movement (1948-1950): Regional Exception in Early European Unification Pauli Heikkilä -- Bridging the Baltic Sea in the Cold War Era: The Political Struggle of Estonian Émigrés in Sweden as a Case Study Lars Fredrik Stöcker -- Finland and the Baltic Question during the Cold War: a Non-Declaration Policy Vahur Made -- The Social Costs of the Early Cold War: an Example from a Soviet Republic Olaf Mertelsmann -- To be Anti-Communist or Anti-Soviet? The People's Republic of China as a Dilemma for the Estonian Exiled Diplomats during the Cold War Period Vahur Made -- Soviet Cultural Diplomacy in Denmark during the Cold War: The Case of the Society for Cooperation between Denmark and the Soviet Union Kim Frederichsen -- An Actor's Perspective to the Cold War Finnish-Soviet Trade Virpi Kaisto -- Intelligence Clash in the Baltic Sea during the Cold War Sigurd Hess -- The Szczecin Lagoon in the Cold War: Germans, Poles, Czechoslovakians and the Soviets Pierre-Frédéric Weber -- Normalising the Cold War habitus: How Latvian Autobiographers Cope with their Soviet-time Experience Martins Kaprans -- Culture of the Cold War as Reflected in the American Reconnaissance Flights Lost over or near the Soviet Union Following the End of World War II James G. Connell, Jr. -- List of Contributors.