ODD ARNE WESTAD. THE GLOBAL COLD WAR. THIRD WORLD INTERVENTION AND THE MAKING OF OURS TIMES. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. XIV, 484 c.* The theme of the "cold War", the confrontation between the" superpowers " - the USSR and the United States - has attracted the attention of historians for many years. However, in recent years, the range of such studies has significantly expanded, including not only direct confrontation between the two blocks, but also * Odd Arne Westad. The Global Cold War. Third World interventions and the creation of our time. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. XIV, 484 p. page 206and events on the "global periphery". A significant contribution to this work was made by one of the leaders of the Center for Cold War Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science - Norwegian Professor O. A. Vestad. First of all, this applies to the recesized monograph, published initially in the USA (second edition in 2007), and then in France (La Guerrefroide globale. Le tiers-monde, les Etats-Unis et I'URSS, 1945 - 1991. Paris: Payot, 2007). The monograph is devoted, with the exception of small sections on Cuba and Nicaragua, to the attitude of the "superpowers" to events in Asia and Africa. Starting out as a study of the motives and interests that shaped U.S. and Soviet policies in the "third world," Westad says he realized that they could not be understood without studying the "ideological foundations of their interventionism" and the "transformation of third world politics" that led to the intervention of "superpowers" (p. 1). - structure of the monograph. The first three introductory chapters deal with the ideology held by the" superpowers "and" post - colonial leaders", i.e., the leaders of independent countries, and in the subsequent ones-the manifestation of the" cold war "in certain areas of the world and, finally, the" Reagan offensive "and the"Gorbachev retreat". At the same time, the author pays the least attention ... Read more