Anti-Zionism in the 1960s and 1970s: the USSR and the Soviet Bloc

Prof. Elissa Bemporad, Prof. Jeffrey Herf

Events taking place in the 1960s had a major effect on the development of anti-Zionism in the Soviet Union and on their subsequent spread across the Soviet Bloc states, those Communist nations closely allied with the Soviet Union.

How were Israel and Zionism perceived in the Soviet Bloc states?

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References

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• Herf, Jefferey, Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967-1989 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).

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