For a long time, people tended to see North Korea as a joke, a strange country run by irrational and megalomaniac dictators. At first glance, the long-term existence of such a regime seemed to contradict the principles of social and political science. North Korean leaders have often been seen as a laughing stock. Why? Mostly … [Read More]
Author: Andrei Lankov
Selected publications by Andrei Lankov
- Ask A North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World’s Most Secretive Nation, Tuttle 2018
- The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia, Oxford University Press 2013
- The Dawn of Modern Korea: the transformation in life and cityscape, Eunhaeng Namu 2007
- Crisis in North Korea: The Failure of De-Stalinization, 1956, University of Hawai'i Press 2007
- North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea, McFarland 2007
Book review: The Dawn of Modern Korea
Andrei Lankov – The Dawn of Modern Korea EunHaeng NaMu publishing, 2008 This entertaining book has, paradoxically, taken me a devil of a long time to finish. That’s not because it’s difficult. It’s because it’s the opposite. The book is co-branded with a series of articles that Andrei Lankov has been writing for the Korea … [Read More]