1. Roy A. Medvedev, ‘The Problem of Democratization and the Problem of Détente’, October 1973, samizdat article published in translation in Radio Liberty Special Report, RL 359/73 (19 November 1973 ), p. 10.
2. See, for example, Robert O. Freedman, ‘Soviet Jewry and Soviet–American Relations: A Historical Analysis’, in Robert O. Freedman (ed.), Soviet Jewry in the Decisive Decade, 1971–1980 ( Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1984 ), pp. 38–67;
3. Marshall Goldman, Détente and Dollars ( New York: Basic, 1975 ), pp. 69–70;
4. William Korey, ‘The Future of Soviet Jewry: Emigration and Assimilation’, Foreign Affairs 58 (1) (Fall 1979), pp. 74–7.
5. For details of the treaty see William E. Griffith, The Ostpolitik of the Federal Republic of Germany (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1978), pp. 191–3. Walter Scheel was Chairman of the West German Free Democratic Party, a part of Willy Brandt’s coalition government.