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August Faction Incident

Index August Faction Incident

August Incident (8월 종파 사건), officially coined as the "Second Arduous March", was an attempted removal of Kim Il-sung from power by leading North Korean figures from the Soviet-Korean faction and the Yan'an faction, with support from the Soviet Union and China, at the 2nd Plenary Session of the 3rd Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in 1956. [1]

26 relations: Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, China, Choe Chang-ik, Columbia University Press, Cult of personality, Dae-Sook Suh, De-Stalinization, Eastern Bloc, Eternal leaders of Juche Korea, History of North Korea, Ho Ka-i, Joseph Stalin, Kim Il-sung, Kim Tu-bong, Nikita Khrushchev, North Korea, On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Pak Chang-ok, Rowman & Littlefield, Secretary (title), Soviet Union, Stalinism, Workers' Party of North Korea, Yan'an faction, 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 3rd Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea

The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (조선로동당 중앙위원회) is the highest party body between WPK national meetings.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Choe Chang-ik

Choe Chang-ik (1896 – 1960) was a Korean independence activist from the Japanese colonial era, a communist, and a politician.

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Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.

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Cult of personality

A cult of personality arises when a country's regime – or, more rarely, an individual politician – uses the techniques of mass media, propaganda, the big lie, spectacle, the arts, patriotism, and government-organized demonstrations and rallies to create an idealized, heroic, and worshipful image of a leader, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.

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Dae-Sook Suh

Dae-Sook Suh (born 1931) is a professor emeritus of political science and the former director of the Centre for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii.

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De-Stalinization

De-Stalinization (Russian: десталинизация, destalinizatsiya) consisted of a series of political reforms in the Soviet Union after the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and the ascension of Nikita Khrushchev to power.

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Eastern Bloc

The Eastern Bloc was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact.

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Eternal leaders of Juche Korea

The official designation of Eternal Leaders of Juche Korea (주체조선의 영원한 수령) was established by a line in the preamble to the Socialist Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as amended on 30 June 2016, and in subsequent revisions.

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History of North Korea

The history of North Korea began with the partition of Korea at the end of World War II in September 1945.

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Ho Ka-i

Alexei Ivanovich Hegai (Алексей Иванович Хегай, 허가이; 18 March 1908 – 2 July 1953), also known as Ho Ka-i, was a Soviet political operative in North Korea (DPRK) and leader of the Soviet Korean faction within the early political structure of North Korea.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian nationality.

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Kim Il-sung

Kim Il-sung (or Kim Il Sung) (born Kim Sŏng-ju; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was the first leader of North Korea, from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994.

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Kim Tu-bong

Kim Tu-bong (February 16, 1889 – March 1958 or later) was the 1st Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of North Korea from 1946 to 1949.

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Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April 1894 – 11 September 1971) was a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964.

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North Korea

North Korea (Chosŏn'gŭl:조선; Hanja:朝鮮; Chosŏn), officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (abbreviated as DPRK, PRK, DPR Korea, or Korea DPR), is a country in East Asia constituting the northern part of the Korean Peninsula.

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On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences

"On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" («О культе личности и его последствиях», «O kul'te lichnosti i yego posledstviyakh») was a report by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev made to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on 25 February 1956.

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Pak Chang-ok

Pak Chang-ok (died 1960) was a North Korean official and was a leader of the Soviet Korean faction of the party, with members being mainly ethnic Koreans born in Soviet Union, after the suicide of their first leader, Ho Ka-i. Pak was a member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), and the Chairman of the State Planning Commission.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949.

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Secretary (title)

Secretary is a title often used in organizations to indicate a person having a certain amount of authority, power, or importance in the organization.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Stalinism

Stalinism is the means of governing and related policies implemented from the 1920s to 1953 by Joseph Stalin (1878–1953).

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Workers' Party of North Korea

The Workers' Party of North Korea (북조선로동당, 北朝鮮勞動黨) was a communist party in North Korea from 1946 to 1949 and was a predecessor of the current Workers' Party of Korea.

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Yan'an faction

The Yan'an faction were a group of pro-China communists in the North Korean government after the division of Korea following World War II.

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20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was held during the period 14–25 February 1956.

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3rd Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea

The 3rd Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was held in Pyongyang, North Korea, from 23–29 April 1956.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Faction_Incident

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