Crisis in North Korea The Failure of De-Stalinization 1956

Name: Crisis in North Korea The Failure of De-Stalinization 1956
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ISBN: 9780824832070

ISBN-10: 0824832078

ISBN-13: 9780824832070

Edition: 2005

Authors: Andrei Lankov

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Lankov traces the impact of Soviet reforms on North Korea, placing them in the context of contemporaneous political crises in Poland and Hungary. He documents the dissent among various social groups (intellectuals, students, party cadres) and their attempts to oust Kim in the unsuccessful ¿August plot¿ of 1956. His reconstruction of the Peng-Mikoyan visit of that year¿the most dramatic Sino-Soviet intervention into Pyongyang politics¿shows how it helped bring an end to purges of the opposition. The purges, however, resumed in less than a year as Kim skillfully began to distance himself from both Moscow and Beijing. The final chapters of this fascinating and revealing study deal with events…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: 5/31/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English