Documents on Israeli Soviet Relations, 1941-53 by Federalnaia Arkhivnaia Sluzhba Rossii, Israel Ganzakh Ha-Medinah (1999, Hardcover)

This annotated collection of documents gives an insight into the relationship between the Soviet Union and Palestine/Israel from 1941 to 1953. Most of the documents are declassified and published in accordance with the 1993 agreement bewteen Israeli and Russian Foreign Ministries.
The collection covers such controversial topics as: appeals made to the Soviets by Jewish leaders in Palestine to bomb Auschwitz; the evolution of the Soviet position on the UN partition vote, including Soviet post-war plans to make Palestine into a Soviet trusteeship, or at least a collective trusteeship of Britain, the US and the USSR; and internal conflict within the Soviet Foreign Ministry over Eastern bloc arms sales to Jews and Arabs.
Light is shed on Jewish emigration from the USSR and Eastern Europe, from Maiskii and Weismann's talks on the possible emigration of five million Central European Jews in 1941, to accusations that the Israeli legation illicitly encouraged the emigration of Soviet Jews. USSR non-interventionin the emigration of 200 Polish Jews in 1945-6 is revealed.
Proof is offered of Stalin's direct intervention in commissioning the 1948 Article of Erenburg, signalling a change in the Soviet position regarding Israel and Soviet Jews.
Other topics include: conflict over the status of Russian property in Palestine and itsimpact on the formulation of Soviet policy vis-a-vis Jerusalem; the disintegration of Israel's proclaimed neutrality in global politics and its turn toward the West; the deterioration and dissolution of diplomatic relations between Israel and the USSR in the 1950s; and evidence of interaction of domestic and foreign policy in both countries.
The volumes also examine Soviet intelligence gathering and policy formulation, including evidence that information was passed by left-wing members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs Committee to Soviet diplomats.