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Yalta: The Price of Peace
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- Serhii Plokhy
- Penguin Group
- Paperback
- 9780143118923
- 8.4 X 5.59 X 1.05 inches
- 0.89 pounds
- History > Military - World War II
- English
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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 wasn't dry when the recriminations began. The conservatives who hated Roosevelt's New Deal accused him of selling out. Was he too sick? Did he give too much in exchange for Stalin's 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. Plokhy's 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 FDR's 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 MacMillan's bestseller Paris 1919.
Yalta: The Price of Peace
Author Bio
Serhii Plokhy is author, teacher, and historian and specializes in the history of Eastern Europe with a special focus on Ukraine.
He is Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University and Director of Ukrainian Research Institute.
Professor Plokhy's research interests include the intellectual, cultural, and international history of Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on Ukraine and teaches courses and seminars on early modern and modern East European history that engage major problems in the history of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Poland, and Lithuania.
His select list of publications include
- The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine Basic Books (2015)
- The Last empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union Basic Books (2015)
- The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires Cambridge University Press (2012)
- Yalta: The Price of Peace Viking/Penguin (2010; 2011)
- Ukraine and Russia: Representations of the Past University of Toronto Press (2008)
- The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus Cambridge University Press (2006)
Source: Harvard University Department of History
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