Soviet Motives in the Partition of Palestine, 1947-48
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12015541 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arnold Krammer (Dr. Arnold Krammer is Professor of History at Rockford College, Illinois and an expert on Soviet and Middle Eastern Affairs. He has published articles in journals including The Slavic and East European Review, Wiener Library Bulletin, Modern Age, and The Journal of Contemporary History, and was a contributor to From Haven to Conquest, ed. W. Khalidi, (Beirut: The Institute for Palestine Studies, 1971). He is the author of a forthcoming book to be published by the University of Illinois Press on Soviet..., corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 102-119 |
| Publication date | 1973-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Palestine Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0377-919X • E-ISSN: 1533-8614 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2535483 |
| OpenAlex | W2018442026 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 2 |
Russian involvement in the Middle East follows a national tradition that has survived all the problems of internal struggles, ideology, religious differences, and innumerable failures interrupted by occasional dazzling success which mark the course of Russian history. After the revolution in 1917, however, territorial annexation ceased to be a prime motivating factor of Russian policy, and emphasis shifted to ideological conversion as an instrument for the extension of political influence.' At the end of World War II, though, after exactly three decades of ambivalence and mild interest in the lower Middle East, interrupted only briefly by her transient concern with the 1929 Palestinian riots, a smaller uprising in 1933, and the great Arab revolt of 1936-1939, Soviet Russia found herself without a single ally in the potentially explosive area. In 1946 and early 1947, Moscow supported, albeit half-heartedly, Arab independence movements and their demands for the withdrawal of Western troops from the area. In May 1947, the Soviet Union then astonished the diplomatic world by reversing her three decade support of the Arab world and placing herself on record as a supporter of Zionist aspirations for the establishment and consolidation of a Jewish state in Palestine. Equally astonishing was her ideological rationalization of this move in support of the Zionist movement, hitherto a major focal point of Soviet distrust as an ideology
Ancient history · Annexation · Economic history · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · World War II · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0.08 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 2012 (36) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |