Vol. 1. From ANCIENT TIMES TO 1904; Vol. 2. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY / KOREA. 1905-1945 (V. M. Tikhonov); SOUTH KOREA. 1945-1992 (Kang Mangil) / Ed., translated from cor., comp. cron. tab., edict by T. M. Simbirtseva, Moscow: Natalis, 2011. 533 p.; 499 p. (Orientalia et classica. Proceedings of the Institute of Oriental Studies. cultures and antiquity. Issue 41) The two-volume history of Korea, recently published in Moscow, is a very interesting phenomenon. In the last decade, three general works on Korean history have appeared in Russian, two of which are textbooks: S. O. Kurbanov's book " A Course of lectures on the History of Korea: from Antiquity to the end of the XX century "(St. Petersburg, 2002; 2nd ed., supplement: "History of Korea from Antiquity until the beginning of the XXI century". St. Petersburg, 2009) and the MGIMO textbook edited by A.V. Torkunov "History of Korea (new reading)" (Moscow, 2003), and the third is a translation of the widely known book in the Republic of Korea by Han Yong-woo " History of Korea: a new view "(Moscow: East Lit-ra, 2010). Against this background, the reviewed "History of Korea" stands out for its volume (more than 1 thousand pages); by the nature of the presentation, this is the most detailed work. Although the preface indicates that it can serve as a textbook of Korean history, it is still more of a conceptual work that examines the history of Korea from certain positions and is not tied, like the above-mentioned textbooks, to the specific program of the country's history taught at the university. The first volume and part of the second (before 1945) were written by V. M. Tikhonov, and the rest of the second volume is a translation of the section for 1945 - 1992 of Kang Mangil's book "Kochhe sun Hanguk Handesa" ("A New Look at the Modern History of Korea") made by T. M. Simbirtseva under the editorship of V. M. Tikhonov (1-ed., 1994). This structure of the publication, however, does not violate the conceptual unity of the e ... Читать далее