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JSISA 469A/569A
Winter 2019
North Korean Society

Readings

  • AGOV, AVRAM (2013) "North Korea's Alliances and the Unfinished Korean War." Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 18, No 2 (Fall 2013) pp 225-262/
  • ARENDT, HANNAH (1979) The Origins of Totalitarianism. Harvourt, Grace, Jovanovich, Chapter 12, "Totalitarianism in Power," Chapter 13 "Ideology and Terror" pp 389-479.
  • CH'OE UNHUI (2007) "An Actress's Sad War" In Glennys Young, ed. The Communist Experience in the 20th Century: A Global History through Sources. Oxford Press pp270-7.
  • CUMINGS, BRUCE (1981) The Origins of the Korean War: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes 1945-47. Princeton University Press. Chap 11 “The North Wind”
  • CUMINGS, BRUCE (1990) The Origins of the Korean War Volume II: The Roaring of the Cataract. Princeton University Press. Chapter 18: “Who Started the Korean War? Three Mosaics.” Pp 568-621.
  • FAHY, SANDRA (2015) "Family, Mobile Phones, and Money: Contemporary Practices of Unification on the Korean Peninsula." In Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies, ed. Gilbert Rozman, KEI pp 81-94.
  • FRIEDRICH, CARL J. & ZBIGNIEW BRZENZINSKI (1965) Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy. Harvard University Press. Chapter 1: Autocracy and the Problem of the State", and Chapter 2, "The General Characteristics of the Totalitarian Dictatorship." pp 3-27.
  • GONCHAROV, SERGEI, JOHN W. LEWIS, & XUE LITAI (1993) Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War. Stanford University Press. Chapter 5: “The Decision for War in Korea.” Pp 130-167.
  • HECKER, SIEGFRIED (2010) "Lessons Learned from the North Korean Nuclear Crisis," Daedalus 139:1 (Winter 2010) pp 44-56. (check for library link)
  • HWANG, CHANG-YOP (1999) I Witnessed History's Truth. Hanul, Seoul. Chapter 2,"In a Liberated Fatherland,"pp 65-82.
  • KIM, CHEEHYUNG, "Total, Thus Browken: CVhuch'e Sasang and North Korea's Terrain of Subjectivity", The Journnal of Korean Studies, Vo. 17, No. 1: 69-96 (Check library for source).
  • LEE, CHONG-SIK (1976) "The 1972 Constitution and Top Communist Leaders," In Dae-sook Suh & Chaejin Lee, eds. Political Leadership in Korea. University of Washington Press pp 192-219.
  • KIM IL SUNG (1965) "Socialist Construction," from Revolution and Socialist Construction in Korea. New York: International Publishers. 1971
  • KIM, JIYOON (2015), "Ethnic Brothers or Migrants: North Korean Defectors in South Korea." In Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies, ed. Gilbert Rozman, KEI pp 97-111.
  • KIM, SONG-CH'IL (1993) "July 26, 1950-July 29, 1950" From Yoksa ap'eso: han sahakcha ui 6.25 ilgi. Seoul: Ch'angp'i.
  • LANKOV, ANDREI (2016) "Tyranny of the Weak"
  • MYERS, BRIAN (2006) “The Watershed that Wasn’t: Re-evaluating Kim Il Sung’s “Juche Speech” of 1955” Acta Koreana Vol. 9 No. 1, pp 89-115. (Available on line)
  • LANKOV ANDREI, IN-OK KWAK AND CHOONG-BIN CHO"The Organizational Life: Daily Surveillance and Daily Resistance in North Korea," Journal of Northeast Asian Studies 12: 193-214 (2012). (check for electonic copy in library)
  • OH, KONGDAN & RALPH C. HASSIG (2000) North Korea Through the Looking Glass. Brookings Institution. "The Power and Poverty of Ideology" pp 12-40.
  • PARK, KYUNG AE, (1996) "Ideology and Women in North Korea," In Han S. Park, ed. North Korea: Ideology, Politics, Economy. Prentice-Hall, pp 71-85.
  • SAKAI TAKAHASHI (1996) "The Power Base of Kim Jong Il: Focusing on It's Formation Process," In Han S. Park, ed. North Korea: Ideology, Politics, Economy. Prentice-Hall pp 105-22.
  • SCHWEKENDIEK, DANIEL (2011) "Anthropometric Perspectives" In A Socioeconomic History of North Korea. McFarland pp91-114
  • SHEN, SHENYING (1996) "Politics and Strategies for Development" In Han S. Park, ed. North Korea: Ideology, Politics, Economy. Prentice-Hall pp123-140
  • SUH, DAE-SOOK (1975) “A Preconceived Formula for Sovietization: North Korea.” In T. T. Hammond, ed. The Anatomy of Communist Takeover. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • SUH, DAE-SOOK (1976) "Communist Party Leadership" In Suh, Dae-sook & Chaejin Lee, eds. Political Leadership in Korea. University of Washington Press. pp 159-91.
  • SUH, DAE-SOOK (1988) Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader. Columbia University Press. “Chapter 2: Kim and the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, Chapter 3: Guerilla Accomplishments”
  • SUH, DAE-SOOK (1988) Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader. Columbia University Press, "Chapter 8 & 9"
  • T'AE YONGHO (2018) T'ae Yongho's Testimony, chapter 6.
  • TUCKER, ROBERT C. (1999) "Stalinism as Revolution from Above," In Tucked ed. Stalinism: Essays in Historical Interpretation. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers pp 77-108.
  • TRIGUBENKO, MARINA YE (1996) "Economic Characteristics and Prospect for Development: With Emphasis on Agriculture" In Han S. Park, ed. North Korea: Ideology, Politics, Economy. Prentice-Hall pp 141-59.
  • WEATHERSBY, KATHRYN, (1995) “Soviet Aims in Korea and the Origins of the Korean War, 1945-1950: New Evidence from Russian Archives,” Cold War International History Project Working Paper No. 8, November 1993. (Availablle on Line)
  • YU, CHONG-AE, "The Rise and Demise of Industrial Agriculture in Noth Korea," Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 12, No 1 pp75-109.
 

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