ABSTRACT
The examination of Soviet-Israeli relations in the period provides a vivid demonstration of the workings of Soviet foreign policy. Thus the story of Soviet-Israeli relations in the period under discussion illuminates the varying significance at different times and in different constellations of at least some of the major factors that comprise the essence of power politics. The evolution of Soviet-Israeli relations in the late 1940s and early 1950s also provides: how far Moscow is committed to its own doctrines, and to its ideological partners—avowed and fully-fledged or potential and partial. The detailed survey and analysis of Soviet-Israeli relations in the 1947-1954 periods has relevance and value for the student of Soviet foreign policy and Soviet attitudes and ambitions regarding the Middle East and Israel in later periods. The Soviet Union, having been unable to sever itself completely from pre-revolutionary Russia has a long heritage of anti-Semitism dating far back into the Tsarist past.
