TY - BOOK ID - 85465409 TI - North Korea : markets and military rule PY - 2015 SN - 1316235866 1316233979 1139021699 0521897785 0521723442 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Kim, Il-sŏng, KW - Kim, Chŏng-il, KW - Kim, Chŏng-ŭn, KW - 김 정은, KW - Kim, Jong-un, KW - Kim, Jong-eun, KW - Kimu, Jon'un, KW - 金 正恩, KW - 金正恩, KW - Kim, Jong Il, KW - Kin, Shōnichi, KW - Chin, Cheng-jih, KW - Kim, Djeund Il, KW - Il, Kim Djeung, KW - Ir, Kim Chen, KW - Kim, Chen Ir, KW - 金正日, KW - 金 正日, KW - 김 정일, KW - 김정일, KW - Kaṅʻmʻ, Gyuṃʼī, KW - Kin, Nissei, KW - Ким, Ир-сен, KW - Kim, Ir-sen, KW - Sung, Kim Il, KW - Kim, Il Sung, KW - Chin, Jih-chʻeng, KW - Jin, Richeng, KW - Sūngh, Kīm Īl, KW - Kīm, Īl Sūngh, KW - Kimu, Iruson, KW - Kim, Jl-sung, KW - Kim, Sŏng-ju, KW - كيم، ايل سونج KW - 金 日成, KW - 金日成, KW - 김 일성, KW - 김일성, KW - Korea (North) KW - Politics and government. KW - Economic conditions. KW - Social conditions. KW - Kim, Jong Il KW - Kim Jong Il KW - Kim, Djeung Il KW - Kim Djeung Il KW - Kim, Chŏng-il KW - Gim, Jeong-il KW - 김, 정일 KW - 金, 正日 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85465409 AB - 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 how the end of the Cold War in Europe and the famine brought radical social change to all of North Korean society. This major new study analyses how marketization transformed the interests, expectations and values of the entire society, including Party members, the military, women and men, the young and the elderly. Smith shows how the daily life of North Koreans has become alienated from the daily pronouncements of the North Korean government. Challenging stereotypes of twenty-five million North Koreans as mere bystanders in history, Smith argues that North Koreans are 'neither victims nor villains' but active agents of their own destiny. ER -