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  • Power and the Elite in North Korea

    Paektu and Kanbu

    de Jae-Cheon Lim ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
    This book explores how political power has shaped the elite and their development in North Korea by examining changes of the elite, their interactions, and specific elite figures, based on the transformation of the power structure and characteristics of the North Korean regime since August 1945.As a socialist state where the party guides the state, the ruling core is the party cadre in North Korea ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Kim Jong-il's Leadership of North Korea

    de Jae-Cheon Lim ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    Kim Jong Il came to power after the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994. Contrary to expectations, he has succeeded in maintaining enough political stability to remain in power. Kim Jong Il's Leadership of North Korea is an examination of how political power has been developed, transmitted from father to son, and now operates in North KoreaUsing a variety of original North Korean sources as ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Leader Symbols and Personality Cult in North Korea

    The Leader State

    de Jae-Cheon Lim ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
    The legitimacy of the North Korean state is based solely on the leaders’ personal legitimacy, and is maintained by the indoctrination of people with leader symbols and the enactment of leadership cults in daily life. It can thus be dubbed a "leader state". The frequency of leader symbols and the richness and scale of leader-symbol-making in North Korea are simply unrivalled. Furthermore, the ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

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  • The Real North Korea

    Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia

    de Andrei Lankov ...
    Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to build a rich, nuanced understanding. In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this ... Leer más

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  • Zhou Enlai

    The Last Perfect Revolutionary

    de Gao Wenqian ...
    Zhou Enlai, the premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976, is the last Communist political leader to be revered by the Chinese people. He is considered "a modern saint" who offered protection to his people during the Cultural Revolution; an admirable figure in an otherwise traumatic and bloody era. Works about Zhou in China are heavily censored, and every hint of ... Leer más

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  • North Korea

    A History

    In this key textbook, Michael J. Seth offers an excellent synthesis of existing scholarship, including a thorough examination of contemporary sources. Seth masterfully traces how North Korea gradually transformed itself from a Soviet-style socialist state to an ultra-nationalist, dynastic one, illuminating this journey with an engaging understanding of the political, ideological, economic and ... Leer más

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  • The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950

    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    North Korea, despite a shattered economy and a populace suffering from widespread hunger, has outlived repeated forecasts of its imminent demise. Charles K. Armstrong contends that a major source of North Korea's strength and resiliency, as well as of its flaws and shortcomings, lies in the poorly understood origins of its system of government. He examines the genesis of the Democratic People's ... Leer más

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  • North Korea in Transition

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  • Fractured Rebellion

    The Beijing Red Guard Movement

    Fractured Rebellion is the first full-length account of the evolution of China’s Red Guard Movement in Beijing, the nation’s capital, from its beginnings in 1966 to its forcible suppression in 1968. Andrew Walder combines historical narrative with sociological analysis as he explores the radical student movement’s crippling factionalism, devastating social impact, and ultimate failure.Most ... Leer más

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  • North Korean Foreign Policy

    Security Dilemma and Succession

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  • Mongolia in the Twentieth Century

    The remote vastness of Mongolia has remained somewhat of a mystery to most Westerners - no less so in the 20th century. Homeland of the legendary conqueror Chingiz Khan, in modern times Mongolia itself has been the object of imperial rivalry. For most of the 20th century it was under Soviet domination. Mikhail Gorbachev began the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Mongolia in 1989, a process ... Leer más

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