The World Was Going Our Way, Christopher Andrew
The World Was Going Our Way, Christopher Andrew
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The World Was Going Our Way
The KGB and the Battle for the the Third World

Author: Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 24 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/26/2026

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

In 1992, Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB archivist, snuck out of Russia carrying with him a vast cache of transcriptions of top-secret KGB intelligence files. The FBI later described his trove of documents as “the most complete and extensive intelligence ever achieved from any source.” Renowned historian Christopher Andrew had exclusive access to both Mitrokhin and his archive. In 1999, they published the explosive bestseller The Sword and the Shield, which provided a complete account of KGB operations in Europe and America. In The World Was Going Our Way, Andrew now chronicles the KGB’s extensive penetration of governments throughout the Third World—the battlefield on which the U.S.S.R. sought to achieve global supremacy. Andrew’s definitive account fundamentally revises the history of the Cold War, and sheds new light on the state of the world today. The KGB worked tirelessly for decades to foster anti-Americanism in the developing world, making this audiobook essential listening for anyone seeking to understand the intractable hostility America faces in the ongoing war on terror.

About Christopher Andrew

Christopher Andrew is professor of modern and contemporary history and chair of the History Department at Cambridge University, a former visiting professor of national security at Harvard, a frequent guest lecturer at other US universities and a regular host of BBC radio and TV programs. His books—which include Her Majesty’s Secret Service; KGB: The Inside Story (with Oleg Gordievsky); and For the President’s Eyes Only—have established him as one of the world’s leading authorities on intelligence history.

About Vasili Mitrokhin

Vasili Nikitich (1922–2004) was a Major and senior archivist for the Soviet Union’s foreign intelligence service, the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, and coauthor of The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West, a massive account of Soviet intelligence operations based on copies of material from the archive. The second volume, The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB in the World, was published in 2005, soon after Mitrokhin’s death.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.

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“A well-written, highly engrossing narrative of the KGB program to win the Cold War through domination of the Third World.” Philadelphia Inquirer

[A] skillful and comprehensive account of KGB ‘active measures,’ ‘dirty tricks,’ and signal human intelligence gathering everywhere from Latin America and Africa to Afghanistan, China, India, Pakistan, and ‘unofficial Islam’ inside the Soviet Union itself.” Foreign Affairs

“[A] damning indictment of the way the KGB conducted its business, and the willingness of the Kremlin to be deluded.” Financial Times

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