Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era: Soviet-DPRK Relations and the Roots of North Korean Despotism, 1953-1964

Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era: Soviet-DPRK Relations and the Roots of North Korean Despotism, 1953-1964

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Concentrating on the years 1953-64, this history describes how North Korea became more despotic even as other Communist countries underwent de-Stalinization. The author’s principal new source is the Hungarian diplomatic archives, which contain extensive reporting on Kim Il Sung and North Korea, thoroughly informed by research on the period in the Soviet and Eastern Europea...more
Hardcover, 368 pages
Published January 4th 2006 by Stanford University Press
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Isis
Kim Ill Sung totally lost it and so has everyone in North Korea including his paralytic son.
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Apr 14, 2013 Wan marked it as to-read
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