Soviet Involvement In The Middle East : Policy Formulation, 19661973

Ilana Kass

ISBN 10: 0367288222 / ISBN 13: 9780367288228

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd Mai 2019, 2019

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Neuware - This book focuses on four official groups close to the locus of Soviet decision making the CPSU, the governmental bureaucracy, the military, and the trade union and examines the attitudes of these groups toward the Soviet involvement in the Middle East.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Soviet Involvement In The Middle East : Policy Formulation, 19661973
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mai 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367288222
• ISBN 13: 9780367288228
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 157H x 20D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 157 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 571 grams

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Synopsis

Most books ongmate as essays of limited scope or as doctoral dissertations whose findings await a receptive audience. Although this study passed through both these metamorphoses, it owes its birth to a mere coincidence. As a graduate student in the Political Science Department of The Hebrew University and a junior research fellow at the university's Soviet and East European Research Centre, I was responsible for documenting pronouncements relevant to the USSR's Middle Eastern policy that appeared in the CPSU organ Pravda. Within a few months I was assigned the task of analyzing excerpts from the Trade Union's organ Trud, only to discover that the two newspapers adopted diametrically differing attitudes toward some crucial issues. Trained as I was to view the Soviet system as a totalitarian, cohesive entity and the Russian media as a centrally controlled, monolithic means of mass manipulation, I was rather bewildered by my findings. An attempt to assess and rationalize this empirical reality resulted in two essays, each dedicated to the analysis of a policy group as represented by the press organ officially declared to be its platform. Special thanks are due to Professor Roger Kanet of the University of Illinois, editor of the journal Soviet Union, and to the editorial board of Soviet Studies, whose valuable suggestions and probing queries helped transform these crude attempts at systematic analysis into publishable papers, unwittingly laying the foundation for a doctoral thesis and, subsequently, for this book.

About the Author

Ilana Kass is an analyst with the Soviet and East European Research Center of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and a research fellow at the Davis Institute of International Relations. Dr. Kass is editor of a bimonthly bulletin on the Soviet Union and the Arab-Israeli conflict, and her articles on the Soviet Union and the Middle East have appeared in Soviet Union, Ost Europa, and Soviet Studies.