The Red Decades가 보여 준 일제강점기 한국 공산주의자들의 이상과 실현, 그리고 현실 = The Idealism, Achievement, and Reality of the Korean Communist Movement during the Japanese Colonial Era

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Vladimir Tikhonov’s(Park, No-ja) monograph, The Red Decades: Communism as Movement and Culture in Korea, 1919-1945, shows how during the Japanese colonial period, many Korean intellectuals accepted Communist ideology as a new culture, recognizing it as a model for an alternative modernity. During the interwar period, Communists used violence to respond to rampant state violence against their activities. In addition, Park emphasizes that the severe factionalism of the interwar Korean Communist movement was comparable to other countries, especially Germany. However, he argues that it contributed to concretizing the movement's theory, strategy, and tactics, laying the foundation for the social reform movement in South Korea after the Korean War. Although this argument could be strengthened with more evidence, the monograph expands the topic's geographical and time scope by locating it within a global movement, while connecting its legacy to postwar social and political movements.