1st Edition

Soviet Decision-Making in Practice The USSR and Israel, 1947-1954

By Yaacov Ro'i Copyright 1980
540 Pages
by Routledge

540 Pages
by Routledge

540 Pages
by Routledge

The Soviet Union executed an apparent about-face in its traditional anti-Zionist position when the Palestine issue came before the United Nations in 1947. In addition to political support at the UN from May 1947 to May 1949, important military assistance was rendered to the Jewish Palestinian Yishuv throughout 1948 by the Eastern bloc. Toward the end of that year, however, indications of change... Read more
1: Part One: The Context of the Soviet Decision in Favor of a Jewish State in Palestine; 1: The Period of Non-Commitment February 1945-April 1947; 2: The Die is Cast; 2: Part Two: The Coincidence Of Interests?; 3: From Resolution to Implementation: the International Arena, 30 November 1947-14 May 1948; 4: The Palestine War: Soviet Aid to the Yishuv and the State of Israel; 5: Direct Contacts, May 1948-April 1949; 6: Soviet Backing at the United Nations, May 1948-May 1949; 3: Part Three: Soviet-Israeli Relations and Soviet Jewry?; 7: The Offensive Against Soviet Jewry; 8: Soviet Internal Developments and the Attitude to Israel; 3: Part Four: The Metamorphosis in Soviet-Israeli Relations?; 9: The Soviet Global and Regional Perspective, May 1949-March 1953; 10: The Soviet Stand on the Arab-Israeli Conflet, May 1949-March 1953; 11: Soviet Criteria and Tactics Revised, 1953-54; Afterword

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Yaacov Ro'i