구식 냉전연구와 신식 냉전사 ―세르히 플로히의 『얄타』와 오드 아르네 베스타의 『냉전의 지구사』

Abstract

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, Westad’s book is an excellent example displaying the strong points that new Cold War history could bring to academia: combination of the Cold War and decolonization, inclusion of the Third World as main players in the Cold War arena, sophisticated understanding of ideologies, and finally multilateral and complex representation of Cold War politics. However, Westad’s work still falls short of a top-notch Cold War history monograph because of its old political history methodology.