Soviet Involvement In The Middle East
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Arab Israeli Issue
Arab National Liberation Movement
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Cold War diplomacy
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Frontline Arab States
ICBM
intra-elite policy debates
Israeli Aggression
Israeli Egyptian Front
Krasnaia Zvezda
media influence USSR
Middle East News Agency
Middle Eastern politics
NATO Presence
Policy Issue
political leadership analysis
Progressive National Front
Sadat's Speech
Sadat’s Speech
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Soviet decision-making process
Soviet economic investment
Soviet foreign policy
Soviet Middle Eastern policy
Soviet Military
Soviet Syrian Relations
Strategic Rocket Forces
Sudanese Communist Party
Syrian Coup
UAR
United Arab Republic
West Germany
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- ISBN 9780367288228
- Weight: 690g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 May 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
