Book
Egypt : From Nasser to October War. The Archives of Ambassador
Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Москва, 2012, 216 p.
The book by a well-known Soviet diplomat V.M. Vinogradov (1921 – 1997) deals with the situation in Egypt in the beg. of 1970s when the author was the Ambassador of the USSR (1970 – 1974). He analyses the evolution of Egyptian foreign policy, the development and result of 1973 October war, Geneva Peace Conference on the Middle East, and tells the readers about his contacts with Gamal Abdel Nasser and his successor Anwar Sadat, the next President of the country.
The work is meant for historians-orientologists, as well as for all those who are interested in modern history of Egypt.