Crisis in North Korea : the failure of De-Stalinization, 1956
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 of the late 1950s that eventually led to Kim's version of "national Stalinism."
Print Book, English, 2007
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University of Hawaiʻi Press : Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaiʻi, Honolulu, 2007
History
xv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780824832070, 0824832078
154795239
1. North Korea and it's leadership in the mid-1950s
2. The Soviet faction under attack
3. The third KWP congress
4. The conspiracy
5. The "August group" before August
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."