ABSTRACT

The personal memoir of Aryeh Levin, Israel's first Ambassador to Russia since the severance of relations between the two countries in 1967.

Aryeh Levin's four-year tenure as Ambassador to Moscow coincided with great upheavals in the life and times of both Israel and Russia. He was witness to the momentous events that led to the collapse of the Soviet empire and was instrumental in facilitating the immigration of almost half a million Jews to Israel.

part 1|181 pages

Into the Breach

chapter 1|10 pages

Preparations

chapter 2|11 pages

Reconnaissance to Confrontation

chapter 3|10 pages

Moscow—Zagorsk—Leningrad

chapter 4|14 pages

Access through Research

chapter 5|15 pages

An Introduction to Shevardnadze

chapter 6|10 pages

The Thaw Begins

chapter 7|9 pages

Jewish Culture Reinstated

chapter 8|10 pages

Duologue in Cairo

chapter 9|12 pages

A Dutch Consulate at the Israeli Embassy

chapter 10|28 pages

Visitors and Natives

chapter 11|23 pages

A Turn of the Tide

chapter 12|13 pages

An Endemic Disease

chapter 13|15 pages

Emigration to Immigration

part 2|214 pages

From Consulate to Embassy

chapter 15|9 pages

Aunt Sonya

chapter 16|8 pages

The Curtain Falls-Halfway

chapter 17|18 pages

Agony and Death of the Regime

chapter 18|8 pages

For Purely Humanitarian Reasons

chapter 19|17 pages

We Raise the Flag

chapter 20|22 pages

Still No Ordinary Days

chapter 21|19 pages

A General, Then a Coup

chapter 22|13 pages

The Death of Friends

chapter 23|17 pages

The Embassy Opens

chapter 24|18 pages

Heirs of the Empire

chapter 25|30 pages

From Bukhara to Ararat

chapter 26|19 pages

Winding Up

chapter |3 pages

Postscriptum