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22%OFFVictor Israelyan - Inside the Kremlin During the Yom Kippur War - 9780271017372 - V9780271017372
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Inside the Kremlin During the Yom Kippur War

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Description for Inside the Kremlin During the Yom Kippur War paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1FB; 3JJPL; HBJD; HBJF1; HBLW3; JPSF; JPSN; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 413.

Victor Israelyan was a senior ambassador in the Soviet Foreign Ministry when the armies of Egypt and Syria invaded Israeli-occupied territory on October 6, 1973. Critical to the outcome of this conflict were the Soviet Union and the United States, whose diplomatic maneuverings behind the scenes eventually ended what came to be known as the Yom Kippur War. During the crisis, however, tensions between the superpowers nearly escalated into nuclear war. Israelyan is the first Soviet official to give us a firsthand account of what actually happened inside the Kremlin during these three important weeks in 1973.

Israelyan's account is ... Read more

Supplemented by rare photographs and interviews with other Soviet officials, Inside the Kremlin During the Yom Kippur War is more than a record of the past. Israelyan offers a unique vantage point on the continuing Middle East conflict, and his candid assessment of the mindset of Russian leaders is instructive for understanding how the present leadership of Russia faces its new role in the post-Cold War world.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271017372
SKU
V9780271017372
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99-1

About Victor Israelyan
Victor Israelyan has had a rich and distinguished career as a physician, diplomat, scholar, and professor spanning more than five decades. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was one of the Soviet Union's leading diplomats specializing in disarmament negotiations. He retired from the Foreign Ministry in 1987. He has written more than ten books, including Russian Diplomacy in Transition (Penn ... Read more

Reviews for Inside the Kremlin During the Yom Kippur War
“Not since Leon Trotsky’s writings in the 1930s has a witness to the foreign policy-making decision process of the Communist Party’s top leadership provided us with so substantive a work.” —Alvin Z. Rubinstein,from the Foreword “For more than 20 years, scholars and pundits have been writing about the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war with one enormous handicap: the missing piece ... Read more

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