A talk on North Korean politics by Andrei Lankov, organised by the Russian Democratic Society and hosted at SOAS on 20 February. In recent years, one of Moscow’s most widely discussed allies has been the internationally isolated Pyongyang. Comparisons between the two political regimes are often made, summed up in the ironic Russian phrase “north … [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
Andrei Lankov: North Korea — Masters of Survival and Control
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]
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]