caa a22 4500 388101156 CHVBK 20180307125321.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S002074380005296X doi S002074380005296X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S002074380005296X Ginat Rami Rami Ginat is Doctor of History at Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. British Concoction or Bilateral Decision? Revisiting the Genesis of Soviet-Egyptian Diplomatic Relations [Elektronische Daten] [Rami Ginat] Diplomatic relations between Egypt and the USSR were established in August 1943. The motives behind the Egyptian government's decision to take this step have so far remained obscure. In fact, this subject has not yet been probed thoroughly or systematically and has not been given appropriate attention by either Soviet or Middle Eastern research. Studies dealing with Soviet-Egyptian relations or with Soviet policy toward the Middle East tend to allude only briefly to the establishment of diplomatic relations between Cairo and Moscow in 1943. The explanation for this lack of interest is probably the widespread belief among scholars that Soviet interests and political activity in the Middle East during the Stalinist period were marginal, focusing mainly on nurturing local communist parties. These studies have held that a full-fledged Middle Eastern policy crystallized gradually only after Stalin's death in March 1953. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/1(1999-02), 39-60 0020-7438 31:1<39 1999 31 MES https://doi.org/10.1017/S002074380005296X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S002074380005296X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ginat Rami Rami Ginat is Doctor of History at Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/1(1999-02), 39-60 0020-7438 31:1<39 1999 31 MES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge