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This book, spanning the years 1954-1957, is the first in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel.
List of contents
Preface to the Four-Part Set Glossary and Abbreviations Documents 1-156 Biographical Notes: Part 1 Bibliography: Part 1
About the author
Yaacov Ro'i, Professor of History Emeritus at Tel Aviv University, wrote his PhD thesis on Israeli-Soviet relations; it was published as
Soviet Decision Making in Practice: The USSR and Israel, 1947-1954 (1980). He also headed the team of academic editors of this book's predecessor covering the years 1941-1953 (2000).
Yehoshua Freundlich was State Archivist, 2006-2012, and is presently retired. His PhD thesis from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was titled "Zionist diplomacy prior to the establishment of Israel." He was, for many years, editor and compiler of diplomatic papers of Israel in the Israel State Archives.
Boris Morozov, Research Fellow at the Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, specializes in Soviet Jewish history and Israeli-Soviet relations. He authored
Documents on Soviet Jewish Emigration (1999), co-authored
Exiled to Palestine: The Emigration of Zionist Convicts from the Soviet Union, 1924-1934 (2006), and co-edited
The Soviet Union and the June 1967 Six Day War (2008).
Summary
This book, spanning the years 1954–1957, is the first in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel.
