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Matitiahu Mayzel
Senior Lecturer, Department of History
mayzel@post.tau.ac.il
EDUCATION
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1975
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Ph.D. History, The University of Rochester, NY
Thesis: "The Russian General Staff During the Revolution
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The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Current
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Senior Fellow, Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, Tel-Aviv University
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1978-
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Senior Lecturer, Dept. of History, Tel-Aviv University
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1986-90
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Director, Russian and East European Research Center, Tel Aviv University
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1981-83
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Visiting Associate Professor, Dept. of History & Dept. of Political Sciences, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada)
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1979-80
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Acting President, Israeli Society for Military History
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1977-78
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Acting Director, Russian and East European Research Center, Tel Aviv University
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1974-76
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Coordinator, Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University
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1972-
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Senior Research Fellow, Russian and East European Research Center, Tel Aviv University
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1972-78
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Lecturer, Dept. of History, Tel Aviv University
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1970-72
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Visiting Scholar, Russian Research Center, Harvard University
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PUBLICATIONS
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BOOKS
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Generals and Revolutionaries. The Russian General Staff During the Revolution: A Study in the Transformation of Military Elite. Osnabruck: Biblio verlag,
1979.
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ARTICLES, MONOGRAPHS AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
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`The Formation of the Russian General Staff, 1880-1917: a social study', in Cahiers du Monde Russe et Sovietique, XVI (3-4), juil.-dec. 1975.
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`An Army in Transition: the Russian High Command, October 1917- May 1918', in Slavic and Soviet Series (Tel-Aviv), No. 5 (Sept.1976).
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`Some Aspects of the Concept of Peace in Military Thought', in Jahrbuch des Institut fur Deutsche Geschichte (Tel-Aviv), Beiheft 7: Frieden und
Friedenssicherung in Vergangenheit und Gegenwar. Munchen: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1984.
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`Stalin and the German Attack', in Zmanim, (Hebrew) No. 18-19 (Tel-Aviv, summer 1985).
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`The Russian Army in the Revolution', in Zmanim (Hebrew) No. 27-28 (Tel-Aviv, spring 1988).
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`To Carry the War to the Enemy's Territory: The Golan Heights, 1967', in Actas del XVII Congreso Internacional de Ciencias Historicas, Comision
Internacional de Historia Militar, Madrid, 1990.
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`Stalin Caught Unaware: A Re-examination of the Available Evidence on the German Attack on Russia', in Acta Commission Internationale D'Histoire Militare,
No. 13, Helsinki, 1991.
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`From the "Green Line" to the "Purple Line": The Syrian-Israeli Border on the Golan Heights', in Avi Dgani and Moshe Inbar (eds.), Eretz
Hagolan [Golan Heights and Mount Hermon], (Hebrew), Tel-Aviv, 1993.
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`Leo Trotzki und die "Organe der Staatssicherheit"', in Theodor Bergmann and Gert Schafer (Hg.), Leo Trotzki: Kritiker und Verteidiger der
Sowjetgesellschaft, Mainz: Decaton, 1993.
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`Mechanization and the Development of Soviet Military Thought', in ACTA of the XIXth International Colloquium of Military History, Istanbul, 1994,
pp. 385-388.
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`The USSR and the "War of Attrition" between Israel and Egypt, 1969-1970', in Ma'arachot, (Hebrew) No. 335 (Tel-Aviv, May 1994).
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`The Failure of Peacekeeping - the UNEF, May 1967', in Peacekeeping 1815 to Today, Canadian Commission of Military History, Quebec, 1995.
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