Eastern Europe’s Long Revolution Against Yalta
Year: 2020

In a literal sense, “Yalta” was the 4–11 February 1945 meeting of the “Big Three”—Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin—which took place in the Crimea in a holiday resort near Yalta. This meeting had been preceded by a 1943 conference in Teheran and was soon to be followed by the third, and last, summit of the War Alliance in Potsdam. Even the most seemingly value-free and matter-of-fact description of the agenda at Yalta is likely to deepen that bitter discord that was to characterize subsequent eva