Old Cold War Studies and New Cold War History: A Critical Review on Plokhy’s Yalta and Westad’s Global Cold War
Journal: Critical Review of History
Year: 2021

This paper is a review essay on Serhii Plokhy’s Yalta and Odd Arne Westad’s Global Cold War, translated into Korean in 2020. These two books provide an useful opportunity to find out the continuities and discontinuities between old Cold War studies and new Cold War history. Plokhy’s Yalta largely stays within the boundary of the old scholarship in terms that it retains strong anti-Russian/Soviet sentiment, politicized agenda and narrowed focus on the Western-Soviet relations. On the other hand,