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Yalta: The Price of Peace
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Imagine you could eavesdrop on a dinner party with three of the most fascinating historical figures of all time. In this landmark book, a gifted Harvard historian puts you in the room with Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt as they meet at a climactic turning point in the war to hash out the terms of the peace. The ink wasnt dry when the recriminations began. The conservatives who hated Roosevelts New Deal accused him of selling out. Was he too sick? Did he give too much in exchange for Stalins promise to join the war against Japan? Could he have done better in Eastern Europe? Both Left and Right would blame Yalta for beginning the Cold War. Plokhys conclusions, based on unprecedented archival research, are surprising. He goes against conventional wisdom-cemented during the Cold War- and argues that an ailing Roosevelt did better than we think. Much has been made of FDRs handling of the Depression; here we see him as wartime chief. Yalta is authoritative, original, vividly- written narrative history, and is sure to appeal to fans of Margaret MacMillans bestseller Paris 1919.

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ALSO BY S. M. PLOKHY

Ukraine and Russia: Representations of the Past
The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities
in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky
and the Writing of Ukrainian History
Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography
The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine

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First published in 2010 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Plokhy, Serhii, 1957-

Yalta : the price of peace / S.M. Plokhy.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN : 978-1-101-18992-4

1. Yalta Conference (1945) 2. World War, 1939-1945Diplomatic history. 3. World War, 1939-1945Peace.

4. World politics1945-1989. I. Title.

D734.C726 2010

940.5314dc22 2009026833

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The work, my friends, is peace. More than an end of this waran end to the beginnings of all wars.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

INTRODUCTION T he time and location of the meeting - photo 6

INTRODUCTION T he time and location of the meeting were among the most - photo 7

INTRODUCTION

T he time and location of the meeting were among the most heavily guarded secrets of the whole war. On the evening of February 3, 1945, under cover of darkness, a fleet of Packards brought the two most powerful leaders of the democratic world, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, to their destinationa group of villas formerly owned by the Russian tsar and prominent aristocrats near the Black Sea resort of Yalta. They called themselves the Argonauts, a reference to the ancient warriors who had traveled to the Black Sea coast to recover the Golden Fleece from a dragon who never slept. Their prize was a settlement to the war that had engulfed the world; their dragon was their host, Joseph Stalin, once a promising Georgian poet and now a ruthless dictator.

Together the three men conducted the most secretive peace conference of the modern era. They moved armies of millions and dispensed victors justice as they saw fit, deciding the fate of nations and sending millions of refugees east and west because they believed it would promote a lasting peace. They created an institution to guard that peace and the interests of the victors. They left Yalta satisfied but anxious. Behind them lay thirty years ravaged by two world wars that had cost tens of millions of human lives. Before them was the uncertainty of the postwar world.

The contest of geopolitical aspirations, the clash of egos and value systems, and the jockeying for power among the most astute negotiators their nations could produce all played out in eight days at Yalta in February 1945. The three leaders wondered about one anothers trustworthiness and readiness to compromise. Would the alumni of the best private schools of Britain and America reach an understanding with the son of a Georgian shoemaker who had dropped out of an Orthodox seminary? Would the two democratically elected leaders know how to handle the godfather of the Gulag? The conference confronted its participants with endless moral dilemmas. It was an emotional roller coaster that involved not only the leaders of the Grand Alliance but also their various subordinates, who fought for their countries interests and for the favor of their masters.

Within a few short years of the end of the conference, the high hopes of its authors were dashed, their decisions condemned by friend and foe alike. The surviving participants went on the defensive or preferred to forget their involvement. Feelings of disappointment and regret dominated on both sides of the Cold War divide. Yalta became a symbol of lost opportunity, however differently perceived. In the West, it came to be regarded as a milestone on the road to the lost peace, to cite a 1950s headline in Time magazine. In the mainstream discourse of the McCarthy era, the word Yalta became a synonym for betrayal of freedom and the appeasement of world communism.

Who was responsible? That became a central question with the onset of the Cold War in the late 1940s, when the two sides blamed each other. There were also heated domestic debates. In the United States the decisions taken at Yalta divided Republicans and Democrats. President Roosevelt and his advisers were accused not only of selling out Eastern Europe and China to Stalin but also of promoting communism at home. The highly publicized trial of Alger Hiss, a member of the U.S. delegation at Yalta who was accused of spying for the USSR, raised the temperature of the debate. Interviewed after his retirement for a book about his life, General George C. Marshall declined to make any substantive comment about his role at Yalta, certain that whatever he said would be turned against him.

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