Abstract:

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.

Key words: international rivalry, local revolution, cold war