Books by Victor Israelyan

For over 40 years Victor Israelyan served in the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, rising through the ranks to become one of the Soviet Union's leading diplomats specializing in disarmament negotiations. Here he offers an insight into the volatile inner workings of the Soviet Foreign Ministry.

During the 1970s and 1980s, the author was one of the Soviet Union's leading diplomats, specializing in disarmament negotiations. In this volume, he describes the situation in Moscow and the Kremlin during the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war which brought the world to the brink of confrontation.