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Cold Open. This episode presents the document titled Documents on Israeli‑Soviet Relations 1941‑1953 Part I, a joint publication of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russian Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The material was uploaded to The Black Vault archive on the date of its digital release and is notable for containing the forewords by the foreign ministers of both states, offering a rare bilateral perspective on a historically sensitive diplomatic period. Provenance. The text was made publicly available through The Black Vault, reference https://archive.org/download/documents-on-israeli-soviet-relations-1941-1953-part-i-bentsur-eytan-russian-aca/Documents%20On%20Israeli-Soviet%20Relations%201941-1953%20Part%20I%20-%20Bentsur,%20Eytan;%20Russian%20Academy%20of%20Sciences,%20Russiadjvu.txt. The upload includes the original PDF and a plain‑text transcription. No FOIA case number is attached; the declassification authority is the joint editorial board of the Cummings Center for Russian Studies and the Russian Academy of Sciences, which authorized public release under the terms of the archive’s open‑access policy. The Document. The title page reads: Documents on Israeli‑Soviet Relations, 1941‑1953 Part I: 1941—May 1949. Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Russian Federal Archives. Institute of Oriental Studies. Russian Academy of Sciences. Editorial Board chaired by Eytan Bentsur, Evyatar Friesel, Gabriel Gorodetsky, and Boris L. Kolokolov, with academic editors Yaacov Ro’, Yehoshua Freundlich, Dov Yaroshevski, Alexander V. Saltanov, Pavel V. Stegny, Mikhail L. Bogdanov, Sergei V. Mironenko, and Vitalii V. Naumkin. Translations from Hebrew by Ralph Mandel and Joseph Elron; translations from Russian by Richard Kindersley. Published first in 2000 by Frank Cass Publishers, reissued in 2019 by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group. Foreword by the Foreign Minister of the State of Israel. “The official publication of documents on Israeli‑Soviet relations is indeed an extraordinary event. Governments rarely embark on joint publications, usually preferring to present their own case through unilateral selections of documents. The decision taken by both our governments to prepare such a collection, shortly after the resumption of relations in 1991, was an important confidence‑building measure, aimed at overcoming almost twenty‑five years of mutual suspicion and antagonism. This publication offers an insight into Israeli‑Soviet relations at their formative stage. It dispels much of the mystery surrounding the steadfast Soviet support of the creation of the State of Israel in 1947‑48, as well as the ensuing drift away from this position. The documents, as well as providing fascinating reading, supply clear historical lessons for future reference. Throughout most of the period under investigation, the two countries were at loggerheads. This had little to do with the…

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Documents On Israeli Soviet Relations 1941 1953 Part I (russian Academy Of Sciences, Russia)

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Cold Open. This episode presents the document titled Documents on Israeli‑Soviet Relations 1941‑1953 Part I, a joint publication of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russian Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Date: JUL 18 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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What was Documents On Israeli Soviet Relations 1941 1953 Part I (russian Academy Of Sciences, Russia) about?: Cold Open. This episode presents the document titled Documents on Israeli‑Soviet Relations 1941‑1953 Part I, a joint publication of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russian Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Why was this case declassified?: This material entered the public record through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. Storyflo narrates it directly from the public release.

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