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The upper semicontinuity of global attractors for small perturbations is well studied for autonomous and periodic dynamical systems [e.g., \textit{J. K. Hale}, Asymptotic behavior of dissipative systems. Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, 25. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (1988; Zbl 0642.58013)]. The paper presents a detailed study of the upper semicontinuity of compact global attractors of abstract nonautonomous dynamical systems for small perturbations. Some general properties of maximal compact invariant sets of dynamical systems are given. In particular, the compact global attractor is shown to be a maximal compact invariant set. Main results of the paper are the following: For a general nonautonomous system, various conditions for the upper semicontinuity of attractors for small perturbations are obtained. The author gives also conditions for connectedness and component connectedness of global attractors. Several applications of the general results are given to the study of different classes of nonautonomous differential equations (quasihomogeneous systems, monotone systems, nonautonomously perturbed systems, nonautonomous 2D Navier-Stokes equations, and quasilinear functional-differential equations).