From Lenin to Putin. Russia in the Middle and Middle East

The new work of the well -known scientist -military is the result of his half -century study of the near and Middle East, an honest and unbiased assessment of the goals, methods and means of Moscow policy, its real achievements, failures and miscalculations in this most important region of the “third world” as in the Soviet and in the Soviet and so in the Soviet and so And in the post -Soviet periods. For the first time in international historiography, the decision -making process in the Kremlin on Middle Eastern Policy is considered. Previously unknown facts associated with the Suez crisis of 1956, the Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973, the war in the 1991 Persian Gulf, Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, the policy of Moscow in relation to Israel, analyzes the pragmatic steps of the leadership of the new Russia in the framework of The fight against terrorism, in connection with the entry of US troops into Iraq and Afghanistan, the "Arab spring" and the Syrian crisis