From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960

by Andrei Lankov

To understand how North Korea has survived as the worlds last Stalinist regime despite international isolationand at enormous human costs to its peopleone must look at how its political system was created. The countrys foundations were laid in the late 1940s and 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813531179
• ISBN13: 9780813531175
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"