Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Map; Introduction; 1. Soviet policy-making in the Middle East: from Stalin to Brezhnev; 2. The immediate post-war period: Iran-Turkey-Palestine; 3. The Soviet-Egyptian relationship; 4. The Six-Day War, 1967; 5. The inter-war period, 1967-1973; 6. The Yom Kippur War, 1973; 7. Settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict; 8. The Palestinians and the PLO; 9. The Lebanon War, 1982; 10. The Soviet Union and Syria; 11. The Soviet Union and Iraq; 12. The Soviet Union and Iran; 13. The Soviet attitude to Islam; 14. Arab communism in the Middle East; 15. Marxist South Yemen and the Arabian peninsula; 16. The Soviet Union and Turkey; 17. Gorbachev's Middle East policy; Guide to further reading; Bibliography; Index.

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."..written by one of the best contemporary scholars studying Soviet policy toward the Middle East. Relatively short and most readable, it will be eminently useful as an undergraduate textbook and for the edification of the general reader." Middle East Journal