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Article: From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2004
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From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960. By Andrei Lankov. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002. Pp. 202. $60.00.)
The author of this book, a former Soviet academic, has made extensive use of Soviet archives and interviews with North Korean exiles in Russia to provide some new insights into the early history of North Korea, one of the most inaccessible societies for Western scholars. The work is a collection of six loosely connected essays instead of a narrative account; each essay can be read separately. The first chapter deals with the Soviet occupation from 1945 to 1948. Relying heavily on Soviet sources, Andrei Lankov ...