5 best-selling nonfiction books like From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960 by Andrei Lankov

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From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960

By: Andrei Lankov

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

To understand how North Korea has survived as the worlds last Stalinist regime despite internationa…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960 by Andrei Lankov , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty

By: Bradley K. Martin

3.85

Format: None pages,

Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leaderoffers in-depth portraits of North Korea's two ruthless… read more

Similar categories in Bradley K. Martin's Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty book and Andrei Lankov's From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

2. The Hero With a Thousand Faces

By: Joseph Campbell

3.79

Format: 32 pages,

The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces book and Andrei Lankov's From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged) by None, Edward E. Ericson Jr., Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3. The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

By: None , Edward E. Ericson Jr. , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

4.32

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prison… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"To taste the sea, all one needs is one gulp."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

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4. The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

By: Kang Chol-Hwan , Pierre Rigoulot

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

As tensions between the US and North North Korea continue to escalate, stories of life inside our l… read more

Similar categories in Kang Chol-Hwan's The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag book and Andrei Lankov's From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

5. Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945

By: Carter J. Eckert

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of t… read more

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6. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

By: Guy Delisle

3.50

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Famously referred to as one of the "Axis of Evil" countries, North Korea remains one of the most se… read more

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7. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

By: Anne Applebaum

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Appleb… read more

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8. The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History

By: Don Oberdorfer

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

Don Oberdorfer has written a gripping narrative history of Korea's travails and triumphs over the p… read more

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9. From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960

By: Andrei Lankov

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

To understand how North Korea has survived as the worlds last Stalinist regime despite internationa… read more

Similar categories in Andrei Lankov's From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960 book and Andrei Lankov's From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

5 best-selling history books like From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960 by Andrei Lankov

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Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty

Bradley K. Martin

3.85

The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell

3.79

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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

None , Edward E. Ericson Jr. , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

4.32

Transform Your Habits

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

Kang Chol-Hwan , Pierre Rigoulot

4.62

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18 Top history books like Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty by Bradley K. Martin

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Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam

Mark Bowden

4.15

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The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

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This is Paradise!

Shaun Whiteside , Hyok Kang , None

4.03

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The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future

Victor Cha

3.75

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