Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Preface; Part I: Into the Breach; 1 Preparations; 2 Reconnaissance to Confrontation; 3 Moscow-Zagorsk-Leningrad; 4 Access through Research; 5 An Introduction to Shevardnadze; 6 The Thaw Begins; 7 Jewish Culture Reinstated; 8 A Duologue in Cairo; 9 A Dutch Consulate at the Israeli Embassy; 10 Visitors and Natives; 11 A Turn of the Tide; 12 An Endemic Disease; 13 Emigration to Immigration; Part II: From Consulate to Embassy
14 High Stakes: Jewish Magnates and Middle East Peace15 Aunt Sonya; 16 The Curtain Falls -- Halfway; 17 Agony and Death of the Regime; 18 For Purely Humanitarian Reasons; 19 We Raise the Flag; 20 Still No Ordinary Days; 21 A General, Then a Coup; 22 The Death of Friends; 23 The Embassy Opens; 24 Heirs of the Empire; 25 From Bukhara to Ararat; 26 Winding Up; Postscriptum; Glossary; Index
Summary
The personal memoir of Aryeh Levin, Israel's first Ambassador to Russia since the severance of relations between the two countries in 1967. Aryeh Levin's four-year tenure as Ambassador to Moscow coincided with great upheavals in the life and times of both Israel and Russia. He was witness to the momentous events that led to the collapse of the Soviet empire and was instrumental in facilitating the immigration of almost half a million Jews to Israel
