His thesis: 1) Yalta was “a wise and courageous attempt by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to set the world on the road to lasting peace”; 2) “Difficulties have developed ...

S.M. Plokhy, history professor at Harvard University, recounts the Yalta conference that brought Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin together for eight days in February ...

The Yalta Conference (February 4–11, 1945) and the Potsdam Conference (July 17–August 2, 1945) established the geopolitical framework of the post-war international order.

As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his ...

THE Yalta papers could not have appeared under worse auspices. The decision to publish them was colored by partisan political motives. The leakage during the process of selection and editing of ...

Russian authorities and Crimean occupation officials plan to hold a televised event to mark the anniversary of the Yalta Conference. During the broadcast, they intend to promote narratives about ...

Four historians tackle the Yalta Conference. Stressing the historical context in which the agreements were made, the study concludes that "Yalta's historical significance has been confused, its ...

When I was planning my travels and imagining my time in Yalta, beyond Livadia and the Yalta conference I wanted to see Chekhov’s house and some of the other palaces around town, and I wanted to ...

Last weekend I was in Kyiv, where European, American, and Ukrainian officials were mingling with journalists and policy experts at the Yalta European Strategy conference. With Ukrainian troops ...