Burnt by the Sun
The Koreans of the Russian Far East
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19971887 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jon K Chang (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 286 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Burnt by the Sun (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.21313/hawaii/9780824856786.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4244393786 |
| ISBN | 9780824856786 |
| Open Library | OL27436562M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This study focuses on two primary arguments. First, it demonstrates how the Koreans of the Russian Far East were continually viewed as a problematic or maligned nationality during the Tsarist and Soviet periods. Second, this study argues that the Soviet state was not free of Russian nationalist, populist and primordial views and influences in their nationalities (national minorities) policies. The aforementioned were the "Tsarist continuities" which blinded the Stalinist regime from seeing the Koreans as loyal citizens. Instead, these influences cast the Koreans as a colonizing element (labor force) with unknowable political loyalties (and therefore, possible fifth columnists). This study found that the Soviet state exerted a tremendous sociopolitical influence on the Korean community primarily through the careful selection, cultivation, and placement of Soviet Korean cadres, informants, and secret police. Additionally, author Jon K. Chang sought to capture the sense of "agency," initiative, and entrepreneurship that the Koreans added to Soviet life in the Russian Far East. Chang found very few documents of this type in the Soviet archives. Therefore, he went to Central Asia and interviewed over sixty elderly Soviet Korean deportees which he then paired with archival documents to write Burnt by the Sun
Astrobiology · Physics · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Environmental Science · History · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Soviet and Russian History · ethnic relations · Ethnic relations · Forced migration · foreign countries · Koreans · Political persecution · politics and government · Russia · Russian Far East · Russian far east (russia)
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |