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Yalta: The Price of Peace

Serhii M. Plokhy

A history of the eight-day peace conference in 1945 between FDR, Churchill and Stalin offers insight into the strained political forces that influenced peace talks, challenging popular opinions about Yalta's role in triggering the Cold War.

HistoryWorld History · medium confidenceWorld History81 signalsLlm Classifier: World History -> World HistoryGoogle Books: History -> HistoryKeyword Classifier: War & Military -> War & MilitaryCold War & Nuclear PoliticsWar & Military StrategyEurope & Russia

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Lionel Gelber Prize: International AffairsMajor2011ShortlistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • FDR38%
    • Churchill38%
    • Stalin38%

  2. 02 Central places

    • Yalta90%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    The 1945 Yalta peace conference both reflected strained political forces shaping the talks and challenges popular views that Yalta’s role directly triggered the Cold War.

    Model confidence 62%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 72%.