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2008.
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| Summary/Abstract |
This commentary examines the concepts of Stalinism, post-Stalinism, and neo-capitalism in the journalistic writings of Professor Andrei Lankov. A leading authority in the field of North Korean history, Lankov also writes articles and columns for a number of major media outlets. As a journalist, he has proposed that North Korea in the twenty-first century is no longer a Stalinist state, but a post-Stalinist authoritarian system that is characterized by the development of a neo-capitalist revolution. The paper suggests that contrary to these propositions and in spite of the objective tendency towards capitalist restorationism, North Korea may still be regarded as Stalinist, not because of attempts at "re-Stalinization," as Lankov has described, but on political and programmatic grounds.
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