Andrei Lankov

Andrei Nikolaevich Lankov (Russian: Андрей Николаевич Ланьков; born 26 July 1963 in Leningrad) is a historian of Korea and one of the world's foremost experts on North Korea. He is currently a senior lecturer at the Australian National University as well as a columnist for the Korea Times.^[1] He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Leningrad State University in 1986 and 1989, respectively; while attending there, he went to Pyongyang's Kim Il-sung University in 1985. Following his graduate studies, he taught Korean history and language at his alma mater, and in 1992 went to South Korea for work; he moved to Australia in 1996 to take up a post at the Australian National University, and moved back to Seoul to teach at Kookmin University in 2004.^[2]^[3]

[edit] Publications

(October 2003) From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0813531179.
(December 2004) Crisis in North Korea: The Failure of De-Stalinization, 1956. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0824828097.
(2005) КНДР вчера и сегодня: Неформальная история Северной Кореи (The DPRK Yesterday and Today: An Unofficial History of North Korea) (in Russian). Vostok-Zapad. ISBN 5478000604.
(2006) Быть корейцем (Being Korean) (in Russian). Vostok-Zapad. ISBN 5170324812.
(April 2007) North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea. McFarland and Company. ISBN 0786428392.