[학위논문] (A) society of no popular resistance : How Kim Il Sung created one when communist Albania and Romania could not
...revolt. To find the possible reasons for the absence of resistance during the reign of Kim Il Sung the two most Stalinist regimes in the Soviet Bloc that eventually ended amid popular revolts namely Albania and Romania have been compared with North Korea. The three countries have been analyzed in terms of leadership economies physical control inculcation and isolation as derived from Carl Friedrich’s...
[학술논문] The Policy of Enforced Isolation in North Korea and Albania: Its Role in Regime Survival and Regime Collapse
...towards its own population than towards other countries, as a key survival strategy. North Korea and Albania shared many historical and ideological similarities between the 1940s and the 1980s, but their fates diverged when Albania was eventually engulfed by protests and underwent regime change. Albania’s Stalinist leader Enver Hoxha had done his best to keep the population isolated, as has his...