Reference Library
'Basic Directions for the Stabilisation of the National Economy and the Transition to a Market Economy' (1990)
The compromise Gorbachev drew between the 500-Day Plan and the government programme, approved by the Supreme Soviet on 19 October 1990: four stages (emergency measures, financial austerity, market formation, completed stabilisation), diversified ownership, the sequence of price liberalisation, deficit reduction, social protection, opening to foreign trade, structural reform. The radical timetable and republic-led principle of the 500 days were dropped; the Union centre's coordinating powers stayed. The last official document of the Soviet economic-reform debate.
Read the full text → Constitutions, laws & ordersPresidential decree withdrawing the 50- and 100-ruble notes (1991)
Gorbachev's decree announced on television on the evening of 22 January 1991: the 1961-series 50- and 100-ruble notes cease to be accepted from midnight, may be exchanged within three days up to a limit, and savings withdrawals are capped at 500 rubles a month for the half-year. Known as the 'Pavlov reform', it was justified as a blow against the shadow economy but was in fact a forced withdrawal of excess currency; it recovered far less than planned and destroyed public trust in the state's money.
Read the full text → ScholarshipAleksei Pavlyukov, Yezhov: A Biography
The full Korean translation of Aleksei Pavlyukov's biography Yezhov (2007), covering Yezhov's childhood and imperial army service, his rise in the party's personnel apparatus, his years as NKVD chief, and his fall and execution.
Read the full text → ScholarshipNaumov, The "Bloody Dwarf" against the Leader of the Peoples: The Yezhov Conspiracy
A complete Korean translation of Leonid Naumov's 2009 study. It reconstructs the regional variation of the Great Terror of 1937-1938 from the operational statistics, examines the party's control over Yezhov's NKVD, and traces Yevdokimov's "North Caucasus" Chekist network. Appendices include letters of Yevdokimov and Yagoda, Sholokhov's letter to Stalin, and Frinovsky's 1939 statement to Beria.
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A complete Korean translation of Leonid Naumov's 2013 study of the relationship between the party and the security organs across the Stalin era: the formation of the "honorary Chekist" cohort, the Great Terror, the halt of 1938 and Beria's rise, the postwar reorganizations, and the denouement of 1953, including the Doctors' Plot and the fall of Beria.
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Korean machine translation of the introduction, fourteen chapters, 771 notes, twelve illustrations, contributors and index. Bibliographies and citation details retain their original languages.
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A complete Korean translation of muined's novel-length fanfiction serialized on AO3: an Alice-books ballet AU in which Stalin's CPSU becomes a late-19th-century Russian ballet company, the party leadership dancing under feminized names while the security men work backstage. The staging of a new ballet, Sonya in the Kingdom of Wonder, gives the course of the Great Terror its allegorical shape. Includes the author's notes (collected at the end) and the editor's consolidated character table; tapping an altered name in the text reveals the historical figure. Mature content. Translated and published with the author's permission.
Read the full text → ScholarshipFactions and Revolutionary Government in the French Revolution, 1791–1794
An eleven-section Korean guide to factions, institutions, mobilisation, price and wage controls, the Law of Suspects, the Law of 22 Prairial and Thermidor, with links to primary texts.
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