Russia and the Arabs : behind the scenes in the Middle East from the Cold War to the present / Yevgeny Primakov ; translated from the Russian by Paul Gould.

The nationalist revolutionaries
A failed chance for Arab-Israeli relations
The inevitable confrontation with the west
National interests take precedence over Arab unity
The Soviet Union and the Arab world: a difficult path to closer ties
The lost cause of Communism
America steps forward
The beginning and end of the six-day war
USA: tactics in the new Middle East
Hidden pressures behind the Yom Kippur War of 1973
The making of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty
Lebanon in the eye of a storm
A return to a harder line
The Arafat phenomenon
The Soviet Union and Israel
The phenomenon that was Saddam Hussein
The sage of the Kurds
A nuclear shadow over the Arab-Israeli conflict
The future of the Middle East.