Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of documents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on transliteration and style
- Introduction
- Part I Government ideology and the Jews
- Part II Jews as victims of Soviet policy
- Part III The Zionist issue
- 6 The Soviet regime and Zionism
- Part IV Jews and the Jewish people in Soviet society
- Part V The Jewish experience as mirrored in Soviet publications
- Part VI A separate development
- Notes
- Glossary
- Select bibliography
- Index
6 - The Soviet regime and Zionism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of documents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on transliteration and style
- Introduction
- Part I Government ideology and the Jews
- Part II Jews as victims of Soviet policy
- Part III The Zionist issue
- 6 The Soviet regime and Zionism
- Part IV Jews and the Jewish people in Soviet society
- Part V The Jewish experience as mirrored in Soviet publications
- Part VI A separate development
- Notes
- Glossary
- Select bibliography
- Index
Summary
It can be stated with certainty that there is a connection between the policy of the Soviet Union towards its Jews, its attitude towards Zionism, and its foreign policies as applied to the Middle East in general, and to Israel in particular. But the assertion itself does not serve to elucidate the nature and essence of this connection. Among the complex questions which arise, and which we believe have not yet been answered satisfactorily, are the following. Is there a direct correlation – positive or negative – between the Soviet government's policy towards the Jews of the Soviet Union, Zionism and the State of Israel; or, in other words, do the events of the years 1946–67 prove that a negative attitude towards Soviet Jewry inevitably led to hostility towards Zionism and the State of Israel, or vice versa? Do these correlations show any consistency, or should one perhaps speak only of points of contact and confluence, a more general law being difficult to deduce? Was the Soviet government's policy on these questions determined by domestic factors or by considerations of foreign policy?
To provide exhaustive answers to these questions would demand a study of Soviet–Israeli and Soviet–Arab relations far beyond the framework of the present work. However, together with the analysis undertaken in other chapters of this book, the material presented here will permit tentative conclusions which may serve as the basis for such a study.
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- The Soviet Government and the Jews 1948–1967A Documented Study, pp. 229 - 256Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1984