[KS] Work on Korean Three Kingdoms and Relations with Japan in Russian

[Vladimir Tikhonov]

 Dear Dennis (if I may),

 the list of the works by the doktor vater of the majority of the 
 ancient Korea experts in the Russophone world, Mikhial Nikolaevich Pak 
 (1918-2009), is available here:
 http://www.rauk.ru/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=73
 The one which is most germane for your purposes, I guess, is:
 Очерки ранней истории Кореи (Sketches of Korea's Early History). М., 
 Изд-во Моск. ун-та. 1979 - a seminal work, widely read by most students 
 of Korea in the former USSR/post-Soviet states.
 One of Mikhail Nikolaevich's closest friends and collaborators was Dr. 
 Ryu Hakku (1925-2004) - a man of a really unusually dramatic fate, even 
 for the Korean twentieth century. A Chinju native, he was (presumably 
 forcibly) recruited into the Japanese Imperial Army, received training 
 in Russian in an officer school in Manchuria, was then captured by the 
 Red Army and sent to the Soviet Far East, and ended up settling in the 
 USSR and becoming one of the most prominent experts in the Japanese 
 historiography of ancient Korean history - and one of the best Japanese 
 interpretors the Soviet leadership ever had. He then played a role in 
 the USSR-South Korean negotiations on the resumption of the diplomatic 
 relations, was (in a way of exception) granted S.Korean citizenship 
 (never renouncing the Soviet/Russian one - again, a rare exception) and 
 settled in Seoul for the rest of his life. His masterpiece on the 
 history of early Korea/early Japanese-Korean contacts is:
 Рю Хакку,Проблемы ранней истории Кореи в японской историографии (The 
 Problems of Korea's Early History in the Japanese Historiography), М, 
 1975.
 I wrote a short biographic piece on him in Korean a couple of years 
 ago: 
 http://h21.hani.co.kr/section-021109000/2007/09/021109000200709060676043.html
 Then, I should recommend the works by Mikhail Nikolaevich's brilliant 
 disciple, Sergei Vladimirovich Volkov (b. 1955), especially his Doctor 
 of Science (habilitation) thesis, <Bureaucracy and Aristocracy in 
 Korea's Early History> (Russian - available online here: 
 http://swolkov.narod.ru/books/korchin.htm). Unfortunately, in the last 
 20 years Sergei Vladimirovich moved the focus of his attention to the 
 Russian history, especially that of the former Russian Imperial Army. A 
 big loss for the Korean studies, I would say.

 Best wishes,

 Vladimir/Noja

 On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:55:47 -0800, Dennis Lee <dennis.lee at ucla.edu> 
 wrote:
> Dear List Members:
>
> This may be the wrong place to ask, but I am interested in work being
> done in Russian regarding the Korean Three Kingdoms as well as their
> relations with Wa/Yamato/Japan.
>
> I am familiar with Professor Vladimir Tikhonov's work on Tae-Kaya,
> but  are there any other must-read works out there in Russian or any
> good  databases for Russian-language articles on Korea?
>
> Thank you,
> Dennis Lee