North Korea

by Hazel Smith

Book Overview

In this historically grounded, richly empirical study of social and economic transformation in North Korea, Hazel Smith evaluates the 'marketization from below' that followed the devastating famine of the early 1990s, estimated to be the cause of nearly one million fatalities. Smith shows how the end of the Cold War in Europe and the famine brought radical social change to all of North Korean society. This major new study analyses how marketization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521723442
• ISBN13: 9780521723442
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"