From Stalin's Failed Satellite to the New Crisis in the Middle East Roman Brackman ? Examines Stalin's anti-Semitism ? Written by former inmate of Stalin's Gulag A great deal has been written about Hitler's hatred of the Jews, but so far very little has been revealed about Stalin's anti-Semitism and his plan to destroy the Soviet Jewry on the eve of his death. This book fills that void. After the Second World War, Stalin pursued a policy of expansion in the ?direction of the Persian Gulf', and hoped to turn Palestine into a Soviet satellite. Until 1949, Stalin thought he could manipulate the new Jewish State to fit his plans in the Middle East. However, when the plan was frustrated, Stalin began a brutal persecution of Soviet Jewry. Many Jews were arrested and tortured; many Jewish intellectuals, professionals and artist were executed. Soviet leaders went on to support Arab plans to annihilate Israel and pressured Israel to make concessions to the Arabs in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The history of Israel after Stalin is characterized by the search for security against a hostile and pro-Arab Soviet Union and a mildly indifferent United States. The attitudes and actions of American and Soviet leaders from Nixon to George W. Bush are reviewed here in great detail and show the precarious nature of the Jewish State's existence. Roman Brackman was born in the USSR and studied at the Academy of Oriental Languages in Moscow. He was denounced as a Trotskyite and Zionist and sent to the Gulag in 1950. He was freed in 1954 after Stalin's death and emigrated to Israel, and then the United States. He is the author of The Secret File of Joseph Stalin. He lives in New York City.
