Crisis in North Korea : the failure of De-stalinization, 1956 / Andrei Lankov
- Bib ID:
- 3299949
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lanʹkov, A. N. (Andreĭ Nikolaevich)
- Online Version:
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- Description:
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- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press : Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaiʻi, c2005
- xv, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0824828097
- Series:
- Hawaiʻi studies on Korea.
- Summary:
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"North Korea remains the most mysterious of all Communist countries, and the acute shortage of available sources has made it a difficult subject of scholarship. Through his access to Soviet archival material made available only a decade ago, contemporary North Korean press accounts, and personal interviews, Andrei Lankov presents for the first time a detailed look at one of the turning points in North Korean history: the country's unsuccessful attempts to de-Stalinize in the mid-1950s. He demonstrates that, contrary to common perception, North Korea was not a realm of undisturbed Stalinism; Kim Il Song had to deal with a reformist opposition that was weak but present nevertheless." "Researched and cogently argued, Crisis in North Korea is a must-read for students and scholars of Korea and anyone interested in political leadership and personality cults, regime transition, and communist politics."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Background: North Korea and the North korean leadership in the mid-1950s
- 2. 1955: the Soviet faction under attack
- 3. The third KWP congress
- 4. The conspiracy
- 5. The August group' before August: members, goals, methods, and connections
- 6. The August plenum
- 7. The Soviet-Chinese delegation and the September Plenum
- 8. The purges
- 9. North Korea changes course
- 10 The inception of the 'guerrilla state 11. Conclusion. the reasons for the failure: the
- Opposition, Kim Il Song, and the North Korean ruling elite in the.
- Notes:
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- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-265) and index.
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