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Biographies of Soviet Korean Leaders
The Korean Section at the Library of Congress acquired invaluable materials from Uzbekistan. It is a collection of handwritten biographical sketches with portraits and pictures. These are biographies of 80 Soviet-Korean (Koryo Saram) leaders, who were sent to North Korea by the Soviet Communist Party in the mid-1940s to help establish and administer the North Korean government and North Korean institutions. They did much to help the development of the police and the army of North Korea. However, in the autumn of 1958, the first arrests of Soviet Koreans took place, including the former chief of staff in the North Korean Navy and deputy Prime minister of the DPRK. Kim Il-song purged most of Soviet Koreans in the late 1950s and early 1960s. These manuscripts will shed light on several questions regarding when, how, what, and who played a major role in the establishment of the North Korean state. A key objective of this digitized collection is to make these very unique archival collections accessible to the public as well as to prevent them from deterioration. The Library of Congress is providing access to these materials for educational and research purposes and makes no warranty with regard to their use for other purposes. The Library of Congress understanding is that the authors of these manuscripts intended to disseminate the information they contain about their experiences through publication or other broad distribution. The Library of Congress would like to learn more about these materials and to hear from individuals or institutions having any additional information. Please contact the Asian Division for further infromation. To check the bibliographic record, please click Library of Congress Online Catalog NOTE: The manuscripts are scanned and saved in PDF, or Portable Document Format, and you must have the Adobe Acrobat Viewer in order to view these files. You can determine if you have Adobe Acrobat Viewer by searching your files/folders for "Adobe Acrobat Reader". If you don't have this application, download and install it now.
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