Gabriel Gorodetsky

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Gabriel Gorodetsky

Gabriel Gorodetsky ( Hebrew גבריאל גורודצקי; *  May 13, 1945 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli historian and director of the Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies at Tel Aviv University .

life and work

From 1958 to 1963 Gorodetsky attended high school, then he did his military service. From 1966 to 1969 he studied Russian Studies and Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. Between 1969 and 1973 he received his PhD under the supervision of Edward Hallett Carr at Oxford University , which awarded him the degree of Doctor Philosophiae for his dissertation Anglo-Soviet Relations in the 1920s .

Gorodetsky has been Professor of History at Tel Aviv University since 1974 , where he has held the Samuel Rubin Chair of Russian and East European History and Civilization since 1996. In 2003 he became director of the Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies at Tel Aviv University, whose series The Cummings Center Series he has published since 1994.

His research focus is on Soviet foreign policy immediately before and during World War II. In his works, e.g. B. The Grand Delusion , Gorodetsky deals critically with the preventive war thesis, according to which Adolf Hitler with the attack on the Soviet Union in 1941 would have anticipated an allegedly planned attack by the Soviet Union .

Gorodetsky is married to the lawyer and actress Ruth Herz .

Honors and visiting professorships

In 1995 Gorodetsky was elected as a full foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

  • 1986–1987: Fellow, The Wilson Center, Washington, DC
  • 1986–1993: Academic advisor to Tzahal
  • 1993–1994: Visiting Fellow, St Antony's College , Oxford
  • Summer 1998: Fellow, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Washington, DC
  • Summer semester 2001: Visiting Professor, Center for Applied Political Research, Munich
  • Winter semester 2001–2002: visiting professor, University of Cologne
  • Summer semester 2002: visiting professor, Institute for Political Science, University of Munich
  • Winter semester 2002–2003: Eric-Voegelin Visiting Professor, University of Munich
  • Winter semester 2003–2004: visiting professor, Central European University , Budapest
  • 2005–2006: Visiting Fellow, All Souls College , Oxford

Works

Books

  • The Precarious Truce. Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1924-1927. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1977.
  • Stafford Cripps' Mission to Moscow, 1940-1942. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1984 (2nd, revised edition: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
  • Mif Ledokola (= The Icebreaker Myth ). Progress, Moscow 1995 (Russian).
  • Grand Delusion. Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia. Yale University Press, New Haven 1999 (paperback 2001).
    • French: Le Grand Jeu de Dupes . Belles Lettres, Paris 2000.
    • Russian: Rokovoi samoobman. Stalin i napadenie Germanii na Sovetskii soiuz. Rospen, Moscow 1999.
    • German: The great deception. Stalin, Hitler and the "Operation Barbarossa" . Siedler, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-88680-709-6 (paperback edition 2003).

As editor

  • Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-1991: A Retrospective. Frank Cass, London 1994.
  • with Alexander Oganowitsch Tschubarian: Sovetskaia vneshniaia politika v retrospective. Nauka, Moscow 1993.
  • with Alexander Oganowitsch Tschubarian: Voina i Politika, 1939–1941. Nauka, Moscow 1999.
  • as co-editor: Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1941–1953. 2 volumes. Frank Cass, London 2000.
  • with Werner Weidenfeld : Regional Security in the Wake of the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Europe and the Middle East. Europa Union Verlag, Munich 2002.
  • Russia between East and West. Russian Foreign Policy on the Threshold of the 21st Century. Frank Cass, London 2003.
  • The Maisky Diaries. Red Ambassador to the Court of St. James's 1932-1943 . Yale University Press, New Haven 2015, ISBN 978-0-300-18067-1 (translation of excerpts from the diaries of Iwan Michailowitsch Maiski into English).

Essays

  • The Other " Zinoviev Letters". New Light on the Mismanagement of the Affair. In: Slavic and Soviet Series , Vol. 1 (1976), No. 3, pp. 1-30.
  • The Soviet Union and Britain's General Strike of May 1926. In: Cahiers du Monde russe et soviétique , Vol. 17 (1976), No. 2-3, pp. 287-310.
  • Forced cooperation. The policy of the "Grand Alliance" . In: Zmanim , Vol. 10 (1985), pp. 20-35 (Hebrew).
  • The Hess Affair and Anglo-Soviet Relations on the Eve of "Barbarossa". In: English Historical Review . Vol. 101, (1986), No. 399, pp. 405-420.
  • What was Stalin Really Planning to Attack Hitler in June 1941? In: Journal of the Royal United Services Institute , Vol. 131 (1986), No. 2, pp. 19-30.
  • Churchill's Warning to Stalin: A Reappraisal. In: Historical Journal , Vol. 29 (1986), No. 4, pp. 979-990.
  • The Origins of the Cold War. Churchill, Stalin and the Formation of the Grand Alliance. In: Russian Review , Vol. 47 (1988), No. 2, pp. 145-170.
  • Ideology and realpolitik. The emergence of Soviet foreign policy 1917–1927. In: Zmanim , Vol. 13 (1988), pp. 134-143 (Hebrew).
  • "Operation Barbarossa". An examination of the legend of the German preemptive strike. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , vol. 37 (1989), pp. 645–673.
  • The Domestic Opposition to Churchill in the Wake of the Invasion of Russia. In: Történelmi Szemle (Historical Review of the Hungarian Academy of Science), No. 1 (1990), pp. 20–35.
  • Stalin and Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union. In: Bernd Wegner (ed.): Two ways to Moscow . Piper, Munich 1990, pp. 347-366.
  • The Impact of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact on the Course of Soviet Foreign Policy. In: Cahiers du Monde russe et soviétique , Vol. 31 (1990), No. 1, pp. 27-41.
  • Churchill 'i sovetskii soiuz posle 22 iiunia 1941 (= Churchill and the Soviet Union after June 22, 1941 ). In: Novaia i noveishaia istoriia , No. 6 (1990), pp. 61-78 (Russian).
  • The Implication of the German-Soviet Pact on the Western Democracies Reconsidered. In DW Pike (ed.): The Opening of the Second World War. Paris 1991, pp. 179-187.
  • Kanun voiny. (= On the eve of the war ) In: Voprosy Istorii , Vol. 11–12 (1992), pp. 159–170 (Russian).
  • General Golikov. In: Harry Shukman (ed.): Stalin's Generals . London 1993.
  • To Alliance of Sorts. The Origins of Allied Strategy. In: J. Erickson, D. Dilks (eds.): Barbarossa. The Axis and the Allies . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1994.
  • Russian "Appeasement" of Germany in Spring 1941 . In: Tel Aviver Yearbook for German History , Vol. 24 (1995), pp. 257–282.
  • L'Union sovietique et le coup d'Etat yougoslave, avril 1941. In: Communisme (Sorbonne), vol. 49/50 (1997) (French).
  • Les lingerie du pacte germano-sovietique . In: Le Monde Diplomatique , July 1997 (French).
  • Geopolitical Factors in Stalin's Strategy and Politics in the Wake of the Outbreak of World War II. In: Andrea Romano (ed.): Russia in the Age of Wars . Feltrinelli, Milan 2000.
  • The Soviet Union and the Creation of the State of Israel. In: Journal of Israeli History , Vol. 22 (2003), No. 1.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CV of Gabriel Gorodetsky
personal data
SURNAME Gorodetsky, Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv