ABSTRACT
Political indications of Soviet behavior in the Arab world were abundant in Soviet writings from Lenin's time to the end of the period with which this study concludes. But, even if they were non-existent, it was thought that the masses of impoverished Jewish immigrants to Palestine would turn out to be political revolutionaries and so, by its own intrinsic nature, Palestine would generate its own revolutionary process. In this light it was essential for the East and the Arab world in particular to embark on a revolutionary course to solve its internal agrarian question. It seemed that at this juncture of political development the interests of both the Soviet Union and Egypt coincided and ran parallel from the Revolution of 1952, to the arms deal to the Suez Canal crisis and finally to the policy of non-alignment. At first it chose to maintain a direct relationship with an Arab enemy, namely Israel.
