Crisis In North Korea

by Lankov, Andrei N.; Lankov, A. N.

• ISBN13: 9780824828097
• ISBN10: 0824828097
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-16
• Publisher: Center for Korean Studies

Summary

Through his access to Soviet archival material made availably 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.

Author Biography

Andrei Lankov is lecturer in the Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xiii
Note on Romanization	xv
Introduction	1	(201)
1 North Korea and Its Leadership in the Mid-1950's	7	(19)
2 The Soviet Faction under Attack	26	(34)
3 The Third KWP Congress	60	(13)
4 The Conspiracy	73	(20)
5 The "August Group" before August	93	(28)
6 The August Plenum	121	(15)
7 The Soviet-Chinese Delegation and the September Plenum	136	(7)
8 The Purges	143	(32)
9 North Korea Changes Course	175	(27)
10 The Inception of the "Guerrilla State"	202	(9)
Conclusion: Why the "August Group" Failed	211	(14)
Notes	225	(32)
Bibliography	257	(10)
Index	267