| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5

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Book Review

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Andrei Lankov. Crisis in North Korea: The Failure of De-Stalinization, 1956. (HawaiÎi Studies on Korea.) Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. Center for Korean Studies: University of Hawai'i. 2005. Pp. xv, 274. $48.00.

Since its establishment as a separate state in 1948, North Korea has known only two top leaders, Kim Il Sung and his son, Kim Jong Il. Advocates of "regime change" in North Korea, who currently occupy influential positions in the Washington policy establishment, might do well to pay attention to the Kim regime's remarkable track record of surviving both internal and external threats to its existence. One of the most serious crises the regime faced, indeed the only public challenge to the Kim regime after the 1950–1953 Korean War, came in the summer of 1956. At that time, a short-lived attempt to replace Kim Il Sung with an alternative leadership, in the wake of the de-Stalinization campaign that was reverberating throughout the communist bloc, was swiftly crushed by Kim and his supporters. Andrei Lankov has written a detailed history of the events surrounding the "August Crisis," based largely on materials from the Soviet archives.

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