The Partition of Korea After World War II: A Global History

ISBN-13: 9781403969828 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 248 str.

Jongsoo James Lee

Opis

Sixty years after Korea's partition into South Korea and North Korea, a full understanding of how this partition occurred is still wanting. Based on a careful examination of sources in Russian, English and Korean, including new archival evidence from Moscow, this book seeks to provide this understanding. Taking into account not only the policies of the Soviet Union and the United States but also the roles played by the Koreans themselves, Jongsoo Lee untangles the complex dynamics of the Korean partition, placing this partition in the context of modern world history and the emerging Cold War. Comparing Korea with Germany, Austria, Finland and elsewhere after World War II, Lee suggests possible alternative outcomes to Korean partition, thus shedding light on Korea's present predicament as she faces the challenges of reunification.

Recenzje

"Relying on both primary and secondary sources, notably newly accessible Soveit archives, Lee meticulously goesw over major wartime conferences and decisions among the Allied powers concerning the future shape of Korea. . .this book is an illuminating addition to scholarship on modern Korean history." - Vipan Chandra, Pacific Affairs"Jongsoo Lee's The Partition of Korea after World War II is an outstanding achievement. Lee provides a comprehensive and complex account of Korea's partition using an astonishingly impressive array of American, Russian, and Korean archival sources. His thorough and subtle analysis has set a new and very high standard for the subject. Many diplomatic historians aspire to write history from a multinational and multiarchival perspective but fall short: Jongsoo Lee, however, has not. His book is properly subtitled A Global History." - John Earl Haynes, author of Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America

"[A] close and thoughtful analysis of one of the most long-lasting and troublesome elements of Stalin's postwar foreign policy... This book provides the most extensive examination of this subject yet published and is particularly valuable for charting simultaneously the development of Soviet and American policy toward the peninsula together with the actions of Korean political leaders." - The Russian Review

Spis treści

PART 1: US AND SOVIET POLICIES TOWARDS KOREA, 1945-1948 US and Soviet Policies towards Korea until August 1945 US and Soviet Policies in August - December 1945 US and Soviet Policies, December 1945 - August 1948 PART 2: US AND SOVIET OCCUPATION POLICIES IN KOREA AND THE KOREAN POLITICAL LANDSCAPE, 1945-1948 US and Soviet Occupation Policies and the Korean Responses The Korean Actors and Their Policies on Korean Reunification

O autorze

JONGSOO JAMES LEE is Associate in Research at the Korea Institute, Harvard University, USA.