Historical Background, Impact and Lessons of the Crimea (Yalta) Conference of 1945
| 10 December 2024
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Yurchenko S.V., Simferopol, Russian Federation
Historical Background, Impact and Lessons of the Crimea (Yalta) Conference of 1945
Abstract
The article reviews results of the Crimea (Yalta) conference of 1945 and its impact on maintenance of peace and stability in Europe up to the end of the 20th century: international arrangement based on principles achieved in cource of the Yalta conference lasted for almost 50 years, just as the Big Three predicted. The generation of the conference participants came through calamities and trials and yet, with all contradictions, sacrifices, expenses, managed to ensure peace and stability in Europe not only till its own passing, but left some margin of strength for the next generation, despite the rising winds of the cold war. Course of front-line developments, conflict of national security concepts of three allied powers, habitual practice of division of the spheres of influence in a situation of a geopolitical vacuum caused centrifugal tendencies in the great Alliance. Hence the Yalta conference proved a successful attempt of impending conflicts moderation. The author reckons lessons of the Yalta conference of great importance now, when a new system of international relations is being formed. The author demonstrates that leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition powers, Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill, overcame the centrifugal tendencies and framed the principles of peaceful co-existence, which allowed keep existing global concerns under control and regulate controversy arising from natural rivalry of different states.
Keywords
Crimea (Yalta) conference of 1945, Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, anti-Hitler coalition.
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Yurchenko Sergey Vasilievich, PhD in Politics, professor, provost at the Vernadsky Crimea Federal University, chairman of the department of political sciences and foreign relations, Simferopol, Russian Federation, +7-978-021-45-05, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it