From Stalin To Kim Il Sung

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Overview

To understand how North Korea has survived as the world's last Stalinist regime, despite international isolation and at enormous human cost to its people, one must look at how its political system was created. The country's foundations were laid in the late 1940s and the 1950s as a result of interaction between the Soviet Stalinist model, imposed from outside, and local traditions.

Andrei Lankov traces the formation of the North Korean state and the early years of Kim Il Sung's rule, when the future "Great Leader" and his entourage were consolidating their power base. Surveying the situation in North Korea after 1945, Lankov explores the internal composition of the ruling elite, the role of the Soviets, and the uneasy relations between various politcal groups. He also focuses on how in 1956 Kim Il Sung defeated the only known attempt to oust him and thereby established personal rule beyond either Soviet or Chinese control.

The book is based on previously secret Soviet documents from Russian archives, as well as interviews with Russian and Korean participants.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780813531175
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
  • Publication date: 10/10/2002
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 224
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.63 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
Abbreviations
Ch. 1 North Korea in 1945-8: the Soviet Occupation and the Birth of the State 1
Ch. 2 Kim Il Sung: an Attempt at a Biography 49
Ch. 3 The Factions in the North Korean Leadership in the 1940s and 1950s 77
Ch. 4 The Emergence of the Soviet Faction in North Korea, 1945-55 110
Ch. 5 Ho Ka-I: a Forgotten Founding Father of the KWP 136
Ch. 6 The August Challenge 154
Afterword 194
Index 199
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