The chemical industry was a leading sector in Italy`s `economic miracle`, but after remarkable growth in the 1950s, it declined in the next decade. Montecatini rose to a dominant position in inorganic chemicals and fertilizes in the 1950s, but its quasi-monopoly of traditional chemicals was soon...

The chemical industry was a leading sector in Italy's 'economic miracle', but after remarkable growth in the 1950s, it declined in the next decade. Montecatini rose to a dominant position in inorganic chemicals and fertilizes in the 1950s, but its quasi-monopoly of traditional chemicals was soon...

1948, zwei Jahre nach der Wiederaufnahme der diplomatischen Beziehungen, schloss die Schweiz einen Handelsvertrag mit der Sowjetunion, auf dessen Basis sich die Handelsbeziehungen erfolgreich entwickelten. In der Breschnew-Zeit, dem Hauptzeitraum der Untersuchung, standen Handels- und...