Tyumen: Vector Buk Publ., 2011, 324 p. Russian Israeli Studies (even more broadly , the Russian School of Middle East Studies) has been expanded with a monograph by M. G. Agapov. The author focuses on the Soviet policy towards the Jewish-Palestinian community. Although this policy, which was determined by the conditions of the relatively distant past (1920s-1930s), does not seem to him a plot worthy of attention, if, as he notes, the Soviet Union's seemingly "unexpected"support for the Zionists in the late 1940s" (p.6). Indeed, both sides-the consistently developing Yishuv 1 and the Soviet state-seemed to be antagonists: if the emergence and evolution of the first of these parties was determined by Zionist ideology as one of the doctrines of the Jewish renaissance, then the second was guided by the slogan of "proletarian internationalism". If the Yishuv was a supporter of Great Britain, then the Soviet Union of the interwar period considered the leading world power as its main foreign policy opponent. However, as M. G. Agapov shows, the needs of the Soviet Union's foreign policy and internal situation in the period between the two World Wars forced it not only to resist the Yishuv, but also to interact with it. This conclusion was made possible because the reviewed monograph contains and summarizes documents and materials from domestic archives, including the Russian State Archive (RSASPI). Yishuv 1 the Jewish community of mandatory Palestine before the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, as well as the totality of socio-political structures, economic institutions and cultural institutions formed by this community. page 196 social and Political History), State Archive of the Russian Federation (State Archive of the Russian Federation), WUA of the Russian Federation (Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation), RGAE (Russian State Archive of Economics). Relying on a significant source base has contributed to the fact that the work of M. G. Agapov appear ... Читать далее