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The World Was Going Our Way is Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin's history of KGB operations across the Third World, built on the archive Mitrokhin smuggled out of Russia in 1992. It follows the KGB from courting Fidel Castro to the groundwork for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, arguing that Moscow saw the developing world as the decisive Cold War arena. It is the companion volume to The Sword and the Shield, which covered KGB operations in the West. Readers of Cold War history and intelligence writing get a documented, narrative account rather than a memoir or a spy thriller.
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Reviewers treat it as a major intelligence history, praised for the scale of the Mitrokhin material and the light it throws on Soviet operations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Some find the detail heavy going and the organization repetitive.
The World Was Going Our Way is a nonfiction account of the KGB's fight for influence in the Third World. It draws on secret documents that former KGB worker Vasili Mitrokhin smuggled out. In 1992, he walked into a British embassy in the Baltic with top-secret papers hidden at the bottom of his suitcase.
The book sets out what this archive contains and shows the extent of the KGB's influence around the world. Its subjects range from making friends with Fidel Castro in Cuba to starting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. For over twenty years, the KGB believed the Third World was the arena in which it could win the Cold War against the West.
It tells untold stories of conspiracies, mixed with bizarre black comedy on a global scale. It presents an exposé of one of the world's most powerful secret organizations and changes how the Cold War is understood.
