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Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 (Paperback)
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Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 (Paperback)
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During the founding of North Korea, competing visions of an ideal
modern state proliferated. Independence and democracy were touted
by all, but plans for the future of North Korea differed in their
ideas about how everyday life should be organized. Daily life came
under scrutiny as the primary arena for social change in public and
private life. In Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution,
1945-1950, Kim examines the revolutionary events that shaped
people's lives in the development of the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea. By shifting the historical focus from the state
and the Great Leader to how villagers experienced social
revolution, Kim offers new insights into why North Korea insists on
setting its own course.Kim's innovative use of documents seized by
U.S. military forces during the Korean War and now stored in the
National Archives-personnel files, autobiographies, minutes of
organizational meetings, educational materials, women's magazines,
and court documents-together with oral histories allows her to
present the first social history of North Korea during its
formative years. In an account that makes clear the leading role of
women in these efforts, Kim examines how villagers experienced,
understood, and later remembered such events as the first land
reform and modern elections in Korea's history, as well as
practices in literacy schools, communal halls, mass organizations,
and study sessions that transformed daily routine.
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