This book offers a fresh and original approach to the study of one of the dominant features of the twentieth century. Adopting a truly global approach to the re

This book offers a fresh and original approach to the study of one of the dominant features of the twentieth century. While confronting the immense complexities

South Korean historian Jie-Hyun Lim, raised under an anticommunist dictatorship, turned to Marxian thought to explain his country’s development, even as he ca

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