North Korea markets and military rule
In this historically grounded, richly empirical study of social and economic transformation in North Korea, Hazel Smith evaluates the 'marketization from below' that followed the devastating famine of the early 1990s, estimated to be the cause of nearly one million fatalities. Smith shows...
| Otros Autores: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Cambridge, England :
Cambridge University Press
2015.
|
| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
|
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39782219*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Jettisoning caricatures: understanding history
- Beyond the cliches
- National identity
- Part II. The rise and fall of Kim Il Sungism
- Colonialism occupation and the rise of Kim Il Sung
- War-fighting as state-building
- Socialism in our own style
- Sisyphus as economic model
- Social stratification in the workers' state
- Famine and the end of Kim Il Sungism
- Part III. Marketisation and military rule
- Marketisation from below
- Military rule from above
- The marketisation of well-being
- The marketisation of the social structure
- Going nuclear
- Strategic paralysis
- North Koreans as agents of change.
