Crisis in North Korea
Subtitle: the failure of de-stalinization, 1956
By: Andrei Lankov.
Series: Hawaiʻi studies on Korea; Hawaiʻi studies on Korea
Publisher: University of  Hawaiʻi Press; Center for Korean Studies, University of  Hawaiʻi
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Communism -- History; Korea (North) -- History; Korea (North) -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-265) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. North Korea and its leadership in the mid-1950s; title: 2. The Soviet faction under attack; title: 3. The third KWP congress; title: 4. The conspiracy; title: 5. The "August Group" before August; title: 6. The August plenum; title: 7. The Soviet-Chinese delegation and the September plenum; title: 8. The purges; title: 9. North Korea changes course; title: 10 The inception of the "guerrilla state"; title: Conclusion: why the "August Group" failed.