The Yalta-Potsdam System: Non-Confrontational Alternatives
Journal: Istoriya
Year: 2024

The article elucidates the genesis of Yalta-Potsdam system, its evolution and the possible uses of its premises in the present international environment. The author points out the plurality of the sources which predated the formation of Yalta-Potsdam system — from USA President F. D. Roosevelt’s remarks on “Four Policemen”, ideas expressed by “Times” editor E.-H. Carr and Soviet diplomat M. M. Litvinov to the traditions of “Popular Front” in France. The Allied accords achieved at the summits in