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Documents on Israeli‑Soviet Relations, 1941‑1953 – Part One, compiled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. First published in the year two thousand by Frank Cass Publishers, reissued in twenty‑nineteen by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group. The volume is notable because it represents a joint governmental effort to make primary source material from the formative years of Israeli‑Soviet interaction publicly accessible. The material is hosted in the public archive of The Black Vault. The entry was uploaded to the archive with the identifier “Documents On Israeli‑Soviet Relations 1941‑1953 Part I – Bentsur, Eytan; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.” The digital file is available at archive dot org slash download slash documents‑on‑israeli‑soviet‑relations‑1941‑1953‑part‑i‑bentsur‑eytan‑russian‑aca slash Documents On Israeli‑Soviet Relations 1941‑1953 Part I - Bentsur, Eytan; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russiadjvu.txt. No FOIA case number applies; the release is a voluntary public‑domain posting by the archive. The document itself opens with a full title page. It reads: Documents on Israeli‑Soviet Relations, 1941‑1953 Part I: 1941—May 1949. Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Israel State Archives. The Cummings Center for Russian Studies, Tel Aviv University. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Russian Federal Archives. Institute of Oriental Studies. Russian Academy of Sciences. Editorial Board: Eytan Bentsur, Chairman; Evyatar Friesel; Gabriel Gorodetsky. Academic Editors: Yaacov Ro’, Yehoshua Freundlich; Dov Yaroshevski; Boris L. Kolokolov, Chairman; Alexander V. Saltanov; Pavel V. Stegny; Mikhail L. Bogdanov; Sergei V. Mironenko; Vitalii V. Naumkin. Translations from Hebrew by Ralph Mandel and Joseph Elron; translations from Russian by Richard Kindersley. The volume is published under copyright two thousand by the Cummings Center, all rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form without written permission from the publishers. Following the front matter, the volume contains a foreword by the Foreign Minister of the State of Israel. The text reads: “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 nineteen ninety‑one, 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 nineteen forty‑seven‑forty‑eight, as well as the…

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

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Documents on Israeli‑Soviet Relations, 1941‑1953 – Part One, compiled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. First published in the year two thousand by Frank Cass Publishers, reissued in twenty‑nineteen by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group.

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?: Documents on Israeli‑Soviet Relations, 1941‑1953 – Part One, compiled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. First published in the year two thousand by Frank Cass Publishers, reissued in twenty‑nineteen by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group.
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