Yalta : Europe and America at the Crossroads
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Harbutt, Fraser J., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This revisionist study ong>ofong> Allied diplomacy from to challenges Americocentric views ong>ofong> ong>theong> period and highlights Europe's neglected role. Fraser J. Harbutt, drawing on international sources, shows that in planning for ong>theong> future Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and oong>theong>rs self-consciously operated into , not on "East/West" lines but within a "Europe/America" political framework characterized by ong>theong> plausible prospect ong>ofong> Anglo-Russian collaboration and persisting American detachment. Harbutt ong>theong>n explains ong>theong> destabilizing transformation around ong>theong> time ong>ofong> ong>theong> pivotal Yalta ong>conferenceong> ong>ofong> February , when a sudden series ong>ofong> provocative initiatives, manipulations, and miscues interacted with events to produce ong>theong> breakdown ong>ofong> ong>Europeanong> solidarity and ong>theong> Anglo-Soviet nexus, an evolving Anglo-American alignment, and new tensions that led finally to ong>theong> Cold War. This fresh perspective, stressing structural, geopolitical, and traditional impulses and constraints, raises important new questions about ong>theong> enduringly controversial transition from World War II to a cold war that no statesman wanted.