冷战史新研究不仅表现在多国档案资料的发掘和运用, 更表现在对冷战本质及其结构性特征的再认识, 其中包括研究视角的拓展和转换。从新视角着眼, 冷战逻辑并不限于国际斗争的层面, 而且延伸到各地区本土革命的层面, 两个层面的"四维互动"体现了作为世界体系结构性分裂的冷战格局的本质。文安立的《冷战与革命》通过对冷战与中国革命互动关系的考察为冷战史研究范式的创新作出了贡献.但作者的理论思维尚待进一步厘清。

A new study of the cold war history involves not only explorations and applications of multinational archives, but also reconsiderations of the essence of cold war and its structural traits, in-cluding widening and switching the study angle of view. Judged in a new perspective, the logic of cold war is not confined to international rivalries, but stretches to local revolutions around the world. The ' interaction of the four-dimensioned space' at both levels embodies the essence of structural traits of the pattern of cold war as a world system. Odd Arne Westad's Cold War and Revolution makes contributions to blazing new trails of studies on the history of cold war through its examining interactions between cold war and Chinese revolution, although there is still room for a further clarification of the author's theoreti-cal thinking.