Kim Su-ji: Revolution and Daily Life

The great revolution since the liberation until the outbreak of war is a book of history that has been written about people in North Korea. Kim Sooji, a historian who was also a student of Bruce Cummings, sees how ordinary farmers, workers and women experienced the modern socialism of everyday life in the traditional historical narratives that only lighted this period from the perspective of national formation. The re-imagines of the literacy movement, the resounding local People's Committee's Conference in Thirst, the resume of a biographies and social groups, the direct interview of the authors of the mission to join the party and social institutions, and the direct analysis of the oral records left by women's socialist politicians and female caprician warriors, have given rise to a kind of revolution in which they were trying to reconstruct and re-reform their own big social revolution in their own lives. Further, the differences between the exorcist and the women's narratives of the liberation and revolution of men today are noted to note how men's personal lives can be firmly joined with the narratives in ethnic history, while women’s private lives are being replaced by women who are not connected with the internalists of ethnic history. This book, based on the delicate perspective and analysis of the free space, shows the memory and desire of the social revolution of ordinary people in North Korea, will provide a precious opportunity to look at the North Korean system itself, without demonizing or typing it.

Korean title: 혁명과 일상

Korean author: 김수지

Korean publisher: 후마니타스

ISBN-13: 9788964374368