Soviet-North Korean Relations During the Cold War: Routledge Research on Korea

1. The Beginning: Captain Kim Il-sung of the Red Army  2. The Week That Reshaped East Asia: The Soviet-Japanese War of 1945  3. The Soviet Governors of North Korea: Ivan Chistyakov and Terentiy Shtykov  4. Kim Il-sung’s Rise to Power: How a Junior Officer Ended Up Leading a Nation  5. The North Korean Flag and Other Symbols: Made in the USSR  6. The Korean People’s Army: Forged in the Soviet Image  7. The Korean War Through the Eyes of Pyongyang  8. The Famine of 1954-55: a Forgotten Tragedy  9. The Last Days of Summer: The Story of the August Plenum  10. Kim Il-sung’s Road to an Independent Autocracy  11. Stalinism and Kimilsungism: A Comparison  12. Playing Scylla and Charybdis: North Korea and the Sino-Soviet Split  13. Why North Korean Propaganda Was Immensely Popular in the USSR  14. The Father State Dies: North Korea and the End of the Soviet Union

Fyodor Tertitskiy is Leading Researcher at the Institute for Korean Studies at Kookmin University, South Korea. He studies North Korean military, social and political history and is the author of The North Korean Army: History, Structure, Daily Life (2022) and two Korean-language books on Kim Il-sung and his era.