Project description
Studying Soviet anti-Zionism’s cold war legacy
Soviet Cold War anti-Zionism was a major foreign policy ideological element that regularly camouflaged antisemitic activity at home. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the SOVILASAZION project is an interdisciplinary historical project that investigates the role of anti-Zionism in Soviet foreign policy, particularly after 1967, when diplomatic relations with Israel were cut. It will focus on the struggle within the Soviet government, in which pragmatic leadership was countered by dogmatic ideology. The findings will shed light on Cold War politics and its continued influence on modern debate around Zionism and antisemitism. The project provides a fitting reflection on the intellectual heritage that still shapes international discussion.
Objective
SOVILASAZION is an interdisciplinary historical project dedicated to studying Soviet anti-Zionism as an element of Soviet foreign policy’s ideology. Using previously unavailable recently declassified archival sources, the project will be set out to analyze the interconnections of Soviet anti-Zionism with the practices of Soviet foreign policymaking in the circumstances of the Global Cold War and will discuss them in relation to the domestic antisemitic discriminatory practices in the USSR. By doing so, SOVILASAZION will broaden our understanding of the ideological legacy left from the Cold War era for our times, when the discussion about the difference between antisemitism and the permitted criticism of Zionism is even hotter than 40-60 years ago. Addressing Soviet anti-Zionism as an element of Soviet foreign policy’s ideology, SOVILASAZION will investigate the history of the post-1967 relations between the USSR and Israel. It will address the attempts of the more pragmatically oriented wing of Soviet bureaucracy to lobby the restoration of the official diplomatic relations that had been broken off after the 1967 Six-Day War and study how the ideological limitations prevented such restoration. SOVILASAZION will also address the functioning of the Soviet bureaucracy in the sphere of foreign policy, it will highlight the heterogeneity of Soviet bureaucratic apparatus and, overall, will broaden our understanding of this underresearched part of the Cold War history.
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- humanities history and archaeology history
- social sciences political sciences public administration bureaucracy
- social sciences political sciences political policies foreign policy
- social sciences sociology ideologies
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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