The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB & The Battle For The Third World (2005) - Plot & Excerpts
A KGB archivist dropped loads of documents in the lap of Andrew, and this is the second volume that sprang from the new information. The book is incredibly informative. It's dense and about 500 pages, so be prepared to invest some time. It's broken into four categories: Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. It ebbs and flows, largely based on how interesting the narrative of the country in question is.I would give it 5 stars but to the degree Andrew editorializes (which isn't very much) it seems a bit out of place and distracting. He's anti-Soviet/pro-Western and at times it goes too far, in my opinion. He implies, for example, that had the Soviet-aligned nations of Africa embraced the free market as had some East Asian countries, they could have had similar growth rates through the 70s and 80s. That seems remarkably simplistic, especially when it's embedded in a book that consistently (and admirably) resists generalizations.Overall, however, I'd say any history buff would love the book, especially if they have time on their hands.
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