Everyday Life In The North Korean Revolution 19451950 Suzy Kim by Suzy Kim 9780801469350, 080146935X, B00ECGO0FE instant download after payment.

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.