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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