Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950

Name: Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950
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ISBN: 9780801452130

ISBN-10: 0801452139

ISBN-13: 9780801452130

Edition: 2016

Authors: Suzy Kim

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During the founding of North Korea, competing visions of an ideal modern state proliferated. Independence and democracy were touted by all, but plans for the future of North Korea differed in their ideas about how everyday life should be organized. Daily life came under scrutiny as the primary arena for social change in public and private life. In Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950, Kim examines the revolutionary events that shaped people’s lives in the development of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. By shifting the historical focus from the state and the Great Leader to how villagers experienced social revolution, Kim offers new insights into why North Korea…

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2016
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 8/7/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English

Suzy Kim is Assistant Professor of Korean History at Rutgers University.



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Revolutions in the Everyday



Legacies: Fomenting the Revolution



Three Reforms: Initiating the Revolution



The Collective: Enacting the Revolution



Autobiographies: Narrating the Revolution



Revolutionary Motherhood: Gendering the Revolution



"Liberated Space": Remembering the Revolution


Conclusion


Appendix: Sample Curricula


Notes


Index