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Forgotten
Friendship
Israel and
the Soviet Bloc
1947-
53
Arnold K rammer
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THE FORGOTTEN
FRIENDSHIP
Israel and the Soviet Bloc,
1947-53
Arnold Krammer
In May, 1947, after supporting the Arabs
for thirty years, the Soviet Union aston­
ished the diplomatic world by endorsing
the Zionist aspirations for the establish­
ment of a Jewish state in Palestine. This
opened a remarkable two-year period of
Soviet-Zionist cooperation, during which
Russia supplied Israel with considerable
military aid.
Krarnmer examines in depth the events
leading to Russia’s decision and the tre­
mendous impact of this two-year period.
He bases his account on information from
official and private archives and inter­
views with most of the surviving partici­
pants of the 1948 Israeli mission to
Prague, former diplomats, and military
leaders, as well as newspapers and
memoirs.
Thoroughly examining the Kremlin’s
complex motives, Krarnmer provides new
insight into the role of international
power politics in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
He furnishes the first detailed exami­
nation of the Haganah’s activities in
Czechoslovakia, especially the purchase of
weapons and their transport to Israel.
Russia not only supplied munitions and
fighter planes to repel the impending
Arab attack, but also secret training areas
for Israeli troops in Czechoslovakia and
even a brigade of Czech “volunteers.”
In tracing Stalin’s change of outlook in
the fall of 1948 and Russia’s gradual re­
turn to support of the Arabs (from 1949
to 1952), Krarnmer emphasizes Soviet
press reports and broadcasts as signs of
c o n tin u e d on back fla p
The Forgotten Friendship
ARN O LD K RA M M ER
The Forgotten Friendship
ISRAEL AND THE SOVIET BLOC, 1 9 4 7 '5 3
U N IVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Urbana Chicago London
(c) 1974 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
Manufactured in the United States of America
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Krarnmer, Arnold, 19 4 1-
The forgotten friendship:
Israel and the Soviet
Bloc,
1947
-
53
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