Yosef Govrin

Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1953-1967

From Confrontation to Disruption

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Yosef Govrin was formerly Israeli ambassador to Romania (1985-89) and ambassador to Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia and to the UN in Vienna (1993-95). Since retirement in 1996 he has been a research fellow at the L. Davies Institute of International Relations at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Govrin has based his research on a comprehensive selection of foreign policy documents, diplomatic reports, official statements and commentaries, interviews, press reports, memoirs and parliamentary debates. He presents a detailed account of the fascinating relationship between Israel and the Soviet Union. His work analyses the era from the month preceding Stalin's death to the weeks following the Six Day War - one of severance, resumption and then severance again- along two parallel processes. On the one hand, commercial, cultural and tourist links were formed and there was a gradual increase in the number of exit permits granted to Jews to emigrate to Israel. On the other hand, there emerged a number of areas of confrontation, most notably the Soviet policy in the Middle East aimed at forming a united Arab anti-western front in the face of Israel's wish to entrench its security and independence with western assistance, and Israel's fight for the cause of Soviet Jews. This book won the Israel's Prime Minister's Prize in 1991 when first published in Hebrew.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 721g
• ISBN-13: 9780714648729
• ISBN-10: 0714648728
• Artikelnr.: 21280119

Autorenporträt

Yosef Govrin

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 From severance of diplomatic relations in February 1953 to their
renewal in July 1953: idealogical and psychological aspects of the USSR's
decision to sever its relations with Israel; changes in Soviet internal and
foreign policy after Stalin's death and the resumption of Israeli-Soviet
diplomatic relations. Part 2 Bilateral relations - from their resumption to
their severance: Israel between East and West; phases in the USSR's
attitude towards Israel, 1953-1967; trade relations; cultural and
scientific relations; Aliyah, emigration from the USSR and eastern Europe
to Israel. Part 3 The Jewish problem in the USSR: continuity and change in
Soviet policy regarding the National Question and its attitude towards the
Jewish nationality in the USSR; the national awakening of the Jews in the
USSR and Israel's dissemination of information among them; the struggle on
behalf of Jews in the USSR. Part 4 The impact of the East-West superpowers'
confrontation on the Arab-Israeli conflict and on Israeli-Soviet relations:
the Middle East in the Soviet strategy; the USSR's policy during and after
the Sinai Campaigh; Soviet proposals for the prevention of world war and
improvement of relations between states; intensification of Soviet activity
in the Arab states and intensification of tension; the Six Day War and the
breach of Soviet-Israeli diplomatic relations.