Yalta: Eight Days That Changed the World

About This Novel

From 1914 to 1945, the world experienced the catastrophes of two wars, and people have never been so eager for peace. From February 4 to February 11, 1945, when the dawn of peace began to emerge, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill, together with their shrewd negotiators, held a secret meeting in Yalta. In just eight days, the three giants held chips of varying sizes, sometimes joining forces in pairs, sometimes betraying each other, sometimes being tough, sometimes compromising, swinging between ideas and reality, morality and interests, ideology and geopolitics. They want to end the war as soon as possible, they want to protect the interests of the victorious country, and they also want to curb the root causes of all wars, and all of this is at the expense of the interests of small countries. Poland, Germany, China... The post-war trajectories of many countries changed. At the end of the meeting, the participants were full of optimistic hope. They had achieved what they wanted, and believed that the compromise and understanding represented by the Yalta spirit would become the basis of post-war Allied relations. However, in 1947, the Iron Curtain fell and the Cold War began. Yalta became a symbol of missed opportunities for peace. Shahili Ploki, an expert on Eastern European history at Harvard University, wants to rectify the name of the Yalta Conference. He combed through declassified Soviet archives, government documents from various countries, participant memoirs and unpublished diaries to vividly illustrate this highly controversial and far-reaching meeting. He reconstructed the situation at that time, starting from the choices, calculations, interests, and ideas of the participants in the meeting, and proved that although Yalta was an important step on the road to a divided and dangerous world, it was by no means the cause of the Cold War.

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