Vladimir Tikhonov

• Na neun p'ongnyeok eui segi reul kobalhanda (I indict the century of violence). Seoul, Sør-Korea: Inmul kwa sasang 2005. 382 s.
• Useungyeolp'ae eui sinhwa (The Myth of the Survival of the Fittest). Seoul, Sør-Korea: Hangyoreh Publishers 2005. 512 s.
• (i samarbeid med Cho, Cheongnae; Chang, Hoeik; Hong, Sehwa; Pak, Honggyu; Kim, Chinae; Ko, Chongseok; Son, Seokch'un; Cheong, Hyesin) Cheolmeun nal eui kkaedareum (The Awakening of the Young Days). Seoul: Inmul kwa sasang Publishers 2005. 279 s.
• (i samarbeid med Huh, Donghyun) Yeolgang eui soyongdori eseo saranamki (To Survive in the Vortex of Great Powers). Seoul, Sør-Korea: P'ureun Yeoksa Forlag 2005. 331 s.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). Kim Jeongha (金鼎夏, 1898–1938), an “Unreliable” Revolutionary. Seoul Journal of Korean Studies. ISSN 1225-0201. 39(1), s. 149–178. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper examines the life and career of Kim Jeongha (1898–1938), a little-studied figure of the Korean Communist non-mainstream “Shanghai faction,” to illuminate the fraught and ambivalent relationship between Korean nationalists-turned-Communists and the Moscow-based Communist International (Comintern). Drawing on extensive archival materials from RGASPI (Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History), the study situates Kim within the broader context of Korea’s nationalist-Communist movement, which sought Soviet patronage for both national independence and social revolution while often clashing with Moscow’s shifting priorities. Kim’s trajectory—from early nationalist activism in northeastern China and the Russian Far East, through repeated enrolments and expulsions at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East (KUTV), to clandestine Comintern missions in Korea and eventual dismissal in 1935 and execution during the Great Purges—illustrates the contradictory dynamics of co-optation and distrust that characterized the Comintern’s treatment of non-mainstream Korean revolutionaries. By reconstructing Kim’s complex interactions with Comintern structures, this article underscores both the agency of Korean revolutionaries and the limits imposed by Soviet personnel politics

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). The First Red Pilgrims: The Earliest Korean Enrolment to the Communist University of Eastern Toilers, 1921-1922. Marŭk'ŭsŭchuŭi yŏn'gu. ISSN 1738-2998. 23(2), s. 10–67. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper examines the earliest cohort of Korean students enrolled at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East(KUTV) in 1921-1922, situating their academic training within the broader history of the Korean Communist movement and the formation of minority cadres in the early Soviet Party-state. Drawing on personnel files and enrolment registers preserved in the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History(RGASPI), the study offers a socio-historical analysis of approximately fifty pioneering Korean students, focusing on their social origins, educational backgrounds, linguistic competencies, and prior as well as subsequent revolutionary trajectories. It argues that KUTV functioned not merely as an ideological training institution but as a crucial mechanism of social mobility, political socialization, and cadre selection for both Comintern operations and domestic Soviet governance. By tracing the subsequent careers of these early students—whether in underground work in colonial Korea, factional struggles within the Korean Communist movement, or administrative and educational roles within the Soviet Union—the paper highlights KUTV’s formative role in shaping a transnational Korean Communist leadership in the 1920-1930s.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). 한류 시대의 글로벌 한국학의 명암 (The Contradictions of Global Korean Studies in the Age of Hallyu). Kukche Koryohak. ISSN 1347-7307. 20, s. 37–48. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The article explores the development of global Korean Studies in the age of Korean Wave under the conditions of neoliberalism and geopolitical confrontations

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). Cho Seung-bog: An Academic Life in Overlapping Contact Zones and the Meanings of Reversed Nihonjinron. European Journal of Korean Studies. ISSN 2631-4134. 25(1), s. 5–30. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article reconstructs the transnational life and academic career of Cho Seung-bog (1922-2012)—a pioneering founder of Japanese and Korean studies in post-war Scandinavia—through a biographical and intellectual-historical lens. Tracing Cho’s trajectory from pre-war Manchuria and wartime Japan to Cold War America and neutral Sweden, it examines how his overlapping positionalities shaped his scholarship and activism for Korean unification and democracy. In Sweden, Cho reinterpreted Japanese cultural essentialism (nihonjinron) from a post-colonial perspective, transforming its logic of uniqueness into a critical instrument—a “reversed nihonjinron.” His writings juxtaposed Japan’s assumed hierarchical collectivism with the supposedly “universalist” ethics of continental East Asia, seeking to re-center Korea and China within global humanistic discourse. The article argues that Cho’s intellectual strategies illuminate how post-colonial scholars could deploy essentialist discourse to subvert imperial hierarchies and articulate diasporic nationalism, while exemplifying the inseparability of knowledge, ethics, and political engagement in Cold War and post-Cold War East Asian studies.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). A War for the Coming Multipolar World?: How Anti-Hegemonism Sometimes Evolves into a Pro-Putin Stance among the South Korean Left. Korea journal. ISSN 0023-3900. 65(2), s. 202–232. doi: 10.25024/kj.2025.65.2.202. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The present article focuses on the logic used by leftists in South Korea for exculpating Putin for his full-scale invasion of Ukraine (February 2022 to the present). An essential point of this logic is the (mis)identification of Putin’s regime as a supposedly anti-imperialist heir to the Soviet Union. Suggested by Putinist propaganda, this (mis)identification is concomitantly strengthened by a long tradition of idealizing the Soviet Union and its policies among the South Korean Left. With Putin’s Russia replacing the Soviet Union on their mental maps, some representatives of South Korea’s nationalist Left view Putin as an ally. On the practical plane, they hope that the supposed Putinist opposition to American hegemony will weaken the latter and thus give South Korea more elbowroom in its relationship with the USA. On a more general level, a salient feature of pro-Putinism in Korea is the (mis)identification of the multipolar world Russia putatively fights for, with a democratization of international relations.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). 소련 몰락 이후 소련과 동구권의 사회-경제적 형태에 관한 포스트-소비에트 마르크스주의자들의 논의들 Soryŏn Mollak Ihu Soryŏn kwa Tonggugwŏn ŭi Sahoe-Kyŏngjejŏk Hyŏngt'ae e Kwanhan P'osŭt'ŭ Sobiet'ŭ Marŭk'ŭsŭjuŭija tŭr ŭi Nonŭidŭl (The Post-Soviet Marxist Debates on the Soviet and Eastern European Socio-Economical Formation after 1991), 포스트자본주의와 마르크스주의의 혁신: 이론과 실천 P'osŭt'ŭjabonjuŭi wa Marŭk'ŭsŭjuŭi ŭi Hyŏkshin Iron kwa Shilch'ŏn (Post-Capitalism and Renovation of Marxism: Theory and Practice). Chininjin . ISSN 9788963476032. s. 21–56. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  A revised and augmented version of my 2019 article

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). 세계화 이후의 혼란기, 저항을 어떻게 할 것인가? Segyehwa Ihu ŭi Hollan'gi, Chŏhang ŭl Ŏttŏk'e Hal Kŏshin-ga? (The Post-Globalization Chaos—How do we Resist?). Tongbang Hakchi. ISSN 1226-6728. 209, s. 117–134. doi: 10.17788/dbhc.2025..209.006. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article explains the main points of my recent book (in Korean), The World After the War (『Chǒngjaeng ihu ǔi Segye』, Seoul: Hankyoreh Publishing House, 2024), elaborating on the most important parts. The main purpose of 『The World After the War』 is to consider Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine in connection with the current terminal stage of the US hegemony cycle, the general decline of US hegemony, and geopolitical pluralisation during the present hegemonic interregnum. In other words, taking advantage of the structural decline of the US global hegemony, Russia formed a strategic partnership with China, an emerging co-hegemon, and in the process of building its own sphere of influence and reintegrating post-Soviet countries it invaded Ukraine, a buffer zone that tried to remain in the US sphere of influence and resist Russia’s neo-imperial project. In addition, the interrelationship between the invasion and the general political economy of Russian capitalism is emphasized in this article. As part of its neo-imperial revival project, Russia is pursuing re-industrialization, with military industry in its centre—and it was Russia’s military-industrial complex that benefitted most from the invasion. At the same time, the relatively high battlefield allowances paid to the soldiers, who mostly hail from impoverished provinces, create a wartime redistribution effect, eventually strengthening the "national solidarity" centred on Putin's authoritarian regime. The various issues of the anti-war movement in a situation where war constitutes the central part of contemporary Russian capitalist accumulation model are also addressed in the conclusion of this article.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). 식민지 시대의 사회주의 운동, 살릴 만한 가치란 무엇인가? Singminji Sidae Sahoejuŭi Undong, Sallil man han Kach'i ran Muŏsinga? (The Colonial-Era Socialist Movement: What Values Should We Retain?). Marŭk'ŭsŭchuŭi yŏn'gu. ISSN 1738-2998. 21(4), s. 10–22. doi: 10.26587/marx.21.4.202411.001. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The twentieth century, which witnessed the Communist movement being born, developing, then turning into conservative Stalinist nation building and following a downward curve ever since then, has long passed. Even the era of neoliberal globalization, which absorbed the wreckage of Soviet Union and other ‘really existing socialist states’ into the global capitalist system, is already almost over. What are the values of this movement that we should still treasure presently, when its epoch has long ended? I summarized these values in my book The Red Decades: Communism as Movement and Culture in Korea, 1919-1945 as ‘alternative modernity’. Even if Communists could never realize all these values when in power, at least theoretically, the global communist movement of the 1920s and 1930s, including colonized Korea, favoured transborder revolutionary universality and attempted progressive reinterpretation of national cultures, in anti-colonial terms in the case of colonial societies. ‘Alternative modernity’ also included radical redistribution, the possibility of raising the status of these formerly underprivileged, glorification of labour, gender equality and non-authoritarian education. When it comes to the ideals of ‘alternative modernity,’ North Korea did in reality later provided opportunities for social advancement to the former workers and peasants and attempted social redistribution (maximization of social wages). However, in the process of Cold War-era national division and competitive industrialization of the two highly militarized Korean states, the realization of ‘alternative modernity’ ideals was minimized in North Korea, while even social democratic politics never managed to properly take roots in South Korea.

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• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). The Return of a Barbaric Age: The Decline of Pax Americana and the Beginning of Endless Rivalry (original title: 야만 시대의 귀환: 팍스 아메리카나의 몰락과 무한 각축의 시작Yaman Sidae ŭi Kwihwan: P‘aksŭ Amerikana ŭi Mollak kwa Muhan Kakch‘uk ŭi Sijak). Hangyoreh Publishers. ISBN 9791172133757. 351 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This book offers a critical diagnosis of the contemporary global order by situating the decline of US hegemony within long-term cycles of capitalist world-systems. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, it argues that the erosion of American manufacturing, technological leadership, and ideological authority parallels earlier hegemonic transitions, particularly Britain’s interwar decline. The author links this structural weakening to the rise of right-wing authoritarianism, exemplified by Trumpism, and to the normalization of war, exclusion, and social regression on a global scale. Rejecting narratives of linear progress, the book characterizes the present as an era of “historical regression,” marked by financialization, militarization, and deepening inequality. It further examines Israel–Palestine, US–China rivalry, and the war in Ukraine as symptoms of a disintegrating Pax Americana. The work concludes by emphasizing the political agency of Korean society and calls for post-hegemonic strategies grounded in regional autonomy, social justice, and transnational solidarity.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). 붉은 시대 Pulgŭn Shidae (The Red Age). Hankyoreh Publishing House . ISBN 9791172133054. 447 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This book is a revised and amended Korean translation of my 2023 monograph, <The Red Decades: Communism as Movement and Culture in Korea, 1919–1945>.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). 他者中的近代朝鲜：邻国认知与朝鲜的现代性. Jiangsu People's Publishing House (江苏人民出版社). ISBN 9787214290458. 265 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This is the Chinese translation of my previously published book, Modern Korea and Its Others: Perceptions of the Neighbouring Countries and Korean Modernity. The translation is done by Prof. 刘荣荣 (Shandong University).

• Tikhonov, Vladimir & Kim, Deokmin (2025). 한국자본주의의 위기: 마르크스주의적 국제 비교 분석 Han'guk Chabonjuŭiŭi Wigi: Marŭk'ŭsŭjuŭijŏk Kukche Pigyo Punsŏk (South Korean Capitalism in Crisis: Marxist International Comparative Analysis). Chininjin. ISBN 9788963476292. 291 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  A collection of Marxist articles dealing with different dimensions of the current crisis of neoliberalism, in South Korea and elsewhere.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). 포스트자본주의와 마르크스주의의 혁신: 이론과 실천 P'osŭt'ŭjabonjuŭi wa Marŭk'ŭsŭjuŭi ŭi Hyŏkshin Iron kwa Shilch'ŏn (Post-Capitalism and Renovation of Marxism: Theory and Practice). Chininjin . ISBN 9788963476032. 324 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). 우크라의 아픔 공감할 수 있는 나라, 대한민국 Ukhŭraŭi Ap’ŭm Konggamhal su innŭn Nara, Taehan Min’guk [A Country that can Empathize with Ukraine’s Suffering: Republic of Korea]. Hangyoreh sinmun. ISSN 1228-4017. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The column argues that South Korea should empathise with Ukraine because both societies have suffered from great-power rivalry, geopolitical division, and war. Although the recent diplomatic dispute was partly triggered by Zelensky’s public disclosure of sensitive information concerning North Korean prisoners, the column criticises Seoul’s increasingly instrumental and unsympathetic approach to Ukraine, shaped by shifting US policy. Given South Korea’s own experience of war and division, as well as its prosperity gained through industrial development, it should continue—and expand—support for Ukrainian society, independently of its assessment of the Zelensky government.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). 호르무즈 파병, 명분도 실리도 없다 Horŭmujŭ p’abyŏng, myŏngbundo sillido ŏpta (A Troop Deployment to Hormuz has neither Justification nor Practical Benefit). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  I argue strongly against South Korea deploying forces to the Strait of Hormuz. I contend that such a deployment would draw South Korea into an illegal U.S.–Israeli war against Iran, lacking both international legitimacy and authorization under U.S. constitutional procedures. The deployment would be politically disastrous at home: it could alienate the Lee Jae-myung administration’s core supporters, provoke public opposition, and become especially damaging if Korean personnel were harmed. It would not win meaningful support from conservative voters either. Internationally, joining the operation would make South Korea appear to be a subordinate instrument of the United States, damaging its ability to maintain balanced relations with China, worsening risks to Middle Eastern energy supplies, and undermining prospects for engagement with North Korea. The proposal offers no strategic or political gain while exposing South Korea to serious moral, diplomatic, and domestic costs.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). 무기 수출의 그늘 Mugi Such'ul ŭi Kŭnŭl (“The Shadow of Arms Exports”). Munhagin. ISSN 2765-3323. 23, s. 5–13. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The paper critically examines South Korea’s emergence as a major global arms exporter and questions the overwhelmingly celebratory discourse surrounding the success of “K-defense.” It argues that arms production and exports have long been closely associated in both South and North Korea with projects of industrialization, modernization, national power, and economic development. This historical legacy helps explain why the expansion of South Korea’s defense industry is commonly presented in the domestic media as an unambiguous national achievement. The paper challenges this perspective by highlighting the geopolitical and humanitarian consequences of arms exports. It draws attention to South Korean weapons sales to countries involved in armed conflicts and repression, arguing that the economic benefits of the defense industry may come at the expense of civilians and vulnerable populations in conflict zones. The author further situates the Korean case within a longer international history of pacifist and socialist criticism of the arms trade, contrasting South Korea’s relatively weak domestic opposition with stronger traditions of anti-militarism elsewhere, particularly in Japan. Ultimately, the paper calls for a more critical understanding of the relationship between arms exports and the national interest. Rather than treating the defense industry as an inherently positive engine of economic growth and national power, it argues that South Korea’s growing military-industrial capacity entails corresponding political and ethical responsibilities. The paper concludes that a mature civil society should scrutinize the international arms trade and consider whether economic development based on the export of weapons is compatible with South Korea’s professed commitment to peace on the Korean Peninsula and beyond.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). 위기와 혼돈의 자본주의 – 트럼프 2.0 시대 국제정치 동향을 중심으로 (Capitalism in Crisis and Chaos — Focusing on International Political Trends in the Trump 2.0 Era). doi: https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY4v3uOPt9E. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This lecture, delivered for a Workers' Party socialism meeting on September 5, 2026, presents a Marxist analysis of the current global "polycrisis" — the overlapping crises of capital accumulation, U.S. hegemony, and ecology. It is argued that capitalism now is in a transitional phase between accumulation regimes, with falling manufacturing profit rates driving financialization and a speculative AI investment bubble (estimated at ~$600B in 2026 U.S. investment). The lecture examines the multifaceted crisis of American hegemony — political polarization, deindustrialization, mounting federal debt/interest costs, and military strain exposed by the Iran war (depleted missile stockpiles). It argues Trump's tariff-driven "re-industrialization" agenda intensifies contradictions rather than resolving them, redirecting working-class grievances toward nationalism and anti-immigration politics rather than class politics.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). The Present and Future of Korean Studies in Europe. doi: https:/www.aks.ac.kr/cop/bbs/selectBoardArticle.do?nttId=323203&bbsId=BBSMSTR_000000000082&menuNo=4010110000. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The opening speech argues that Korean Studies in Europe are experiencing two contradictory trends at once. On one hand, the spread of Hallyu (the Korean Wave) since the 2000s has driven explosive growth: roughly 129 European universities now offer Korean Studies degree programs (154 offer related courses), with about 25,000 students studying Korean. Research quality has also risen, with several Europe-based scholars' works now translated and well-received in Korea itself, turning the field from a one-way "introducer of Korea" role into a genuine partnership with Korean academia. On the other hand, the field faces serious structural challenges, many shared with the humanities broadly: the rise of academic "precariat" labor, poor job prospects for graduates, and stark funding disparities between wealthy Western European institutions and poorer universities in Southern/Northern Europe or on the periphery. Geopolitics compounds this: researchers from Russia and Belarus face exclusion from EU academic networks and labor markets, and Ukrainian scholars remain in a precarious in-between status. The lecture also raises the question of whether Korean Studies risks becoming a "sect" — a self-contained enclave — since most funding and conference activity flows through Korean institutions (e.g., the Academy of Korean Studies) rather than European funding bodies, leaving the field only loosely connected to broader European humanities and to North America-centered Asian Studies networks (e.g., low European participation in the U.S.-based Association for Asian Studies).

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). "Han Pin: A Border-Crossing Revolutionary" (한빈, 국경을 넘는 혁명가). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This lecture traces the life of Han Pin (also known as Mikhail Han), a Soviet Korean (Koryo-saram) revolutionary born in 1902 in the Russian Far East. As a bilingual, Russian-educated second-generation Korean diaspora member, he joined the Communist Youth League in 1920 and rose through party posts before studying at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in Moscow, where he likely crossed paths with future Chinese revolutionary leaders. Frustrated by patronage politics in the Soviet Korean bureaucracy, he moved to Manchuria and then Seoul, becoming a founding member of the "ML" (Marxist-Leninist) faction of the Korean Communist movement. After a period back in Moscow as a Comintern interpreter and law student, he returned to Korea to work underground, was arrested by Japanese police in 1930, and spent years in colonial prisons, where he took part in acts of prisoner defiance. Released in 1936, he fled to China, joined the Korean National Revolutionary Party, taught at a Nationalist military academy, and later became a leading political figure in the communist-aligned Korean Volunteer Army and the North China Korean Independence League, engaging in guerrilla resistance against Japan. After Korea's 1945 liberation, he entered North Korea as a member of the "Yan'an faction," but was gradually marginalized relative to Kim Il-sung's circle, serving as vice-president of Kim Il-sung University and later as director of the Pyongyang central library, before disappearing from record amid the late-1950s purges of the Yan'an faction. The lecture uses Han Pin's biography to illustrate six broader themes: the inherently transnational/international character of East Asian revolutionary movements; the crucial bridging role diaspora figures played between the Comintern and national revolutionary movements; the persistent importance of elite education/credentials within revolutionary hierarchies; the difficulties former revolutionaries faced adapting to post-revolutionary bureaucratic order; the dual role of the Soviet Union as both a "revolutionary" model and an occupying great power in North Korea; and the human type of the "professional revolutionary" who thrived in struggle but struggled to survive in peacetime institutions.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). 개혁 부진과 주식 광풍 Kaehyŏk Pujin kwa Chusik Kwangp'ung (Stalled Reforms and the Stock-Market Frenzy). Hangyoreh sinmun. ISSN 1228-4017. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The article argues that South Korea’s current “stock-market boom” is less a sign of healthy prosperity than a symptom of stalled social reform. The article notes that stock ownership has become extraordinarily widespread—around 14.42 million people, or roughly half of the economically active population—especially among younger people who face precarious employment, unaffordable housing, and limited prospects for upward mobility. The article contrasts this with Norway, where stronger employment security and social welfare reduce the incentive to gamble on stocks as a route to financial security. The article also warns that widespread individual investment can encourage people to view themselves as “small capitalists,” potentially weakening solidarity with workers and fostering a greater emphasis on profitability over social and environmental concerns. At the same time, the article argues that ordinary retail investors should not be blamed: their turn toward domestic and foreign stocks is largely a response to structural insecurity. The central criticism is directed at the failure of successive governments—including the current reform-oriented government—to address housing, health-care coverage, and especially precarious employment. The stock-market frenzy, in this interpretation, is ultimately a symptom of a society in which insufficient redistribution and stalled reform leave individuals feeling that speculative investment is one of their few remaining avenues for escaping economic insecurity.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). 러시아 민주주의와 전쟁_체첸전쟁부터 우크라이나 전쟁에 이르는 러시아식 군사주의를 고찰하며 Rŏsiaŭi minjujuŭi wa chŏnjaeng: Chech'en chŏnjaengbut'ŏ Uk'ŭrain'a chŏnjaeng e irŭnŭn ‘Rŏsia-sik kunsajuŭi’rŭl koch'alhamyŏ (Russian Democracy and War: Examining ‘Russian-Style Militarism’ from the Chechen War to the War in Ukraine). Sŏngch'al kwa chŏnmang. ISSN 2289-0475. 43, s. 8–21. doi: https:/demopark.or.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=journal&wr_id=44. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article examines the erosion of Russian democracy after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, focusing on the relationship between recurring warfare, militarism, and the consolidation of authoritarian rule. After discussing the broader historical relationship between war and state formation, the article traces Russia's military interventions from the early post-Soviet conflicts in Transnistria and Tajikistan to the First Chechen War (1994–1996). The latter is presented as an important turning point in the strengthening of authoritarian tendencies and the political influence of the military. The Second Chechen War (1999–2000) subsequently contributed decisively to the consolidation of Putin's authoritarian regime. The article situates the later wars in Georgia, Russia's intervention in Syria, and the war in Ukraine within this longer trajectory of Russian militarism. The article further argues that warfare has become structurally embedded in Russia's political economy. Growing military expenditure and the expansion of the military-industrial complex have diverted resources away from civilian economic development and reinforced the state's dependence on military power. Under Putin, war has also become an important instrument for concentrating political authority and sustaining the regime's legitimacy. The war in Ukraine therefore represents not an isolated departure but the culmination of a longer process in which militarism has contributed to the authoritarian transformation of the Russian state. The article concludes that Russia's democratic regression should consequently be understood not merely as the product of Putin's personal authoritarianism, but as part of a long-term interaction between war, militarization, and authoritarian state-building.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). Review Essay: North Korea’s Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953–1965 by Andre Schmid, University of California Press, 2024, 352 p. Journal of Korean Studies. ISSN 0731-1613. 31(2), s. 513–517. doi: https:/read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-korean-studies/article/doi/10.1215/07311613-12518317/412036/North-Korea-s-Mundane-Revolution-Socialist-Living?guestAccessKey=ace5640c-7df1-4b10-9a52-1426c3f5da99. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). 세계사적 격변기, 한반도 평화가 어떻게 가능한가? (The Time of World-Historical Changes: How Can We Maintain Peace on the Korean Peninsula?). doi: https:/blog.naver.com/idi2015/224359075309. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The lecture describes different theoretical approaches to the issue of peace in Korea, with special emphasis on the theories of peace developed by Galtung and Enloe (peace as a shift to less militarized culture, welfare statehood and ideological inclusiveness)

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). 남북한, 서로에게 맞서는 일란성 쌍둥이 Nambukhan, sŏro ege matsŏnŭn illansŏng ssangtung'i (North and South Korea: Identical Twins Facing off against Each Other). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The article argues that despite North Korea's official abandonment of the concept of national reunification and its redefinition of inter-Korean relations as those between two hostile states, the younger generations in both Koreas increasingly mirror one another in regarding division as a permanent reality and reunification as unnecessary. It further contends that, notwithstanding profound political and economic differences, the two states have followed strikingly parallel trajectories of authoritarian modernization, marketization, militarization, and external economic dependence, with South Korea historically relying on Japan and the United States in ways analogous to North Korea's contemporary reliance on China and Russia. The article concludes that this relationship of "identical twins" locked in antagonistic coexistence has become even more precarious now than during the Cold War, making the restoration of inter-Korean communication an urgent prerequisite for preserving peace on the Korean Peninsula.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). The First Red Pilgrims: The Earliest Korean Enrolment to the Communist University of Eastern Toilers, 1921–1922. doi: https:/ascjapan.org/conference/2026-conference-program/. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This presentation examines approximately thirty ethnic Korean students enrolled at the Moscow-based Communist University of the Toilers of the East (KUTV) as early as 1921. Drawing on hitherto unexamined materials—primarily the documents preserved in the Russian State Archive for Socio-Political History (RGASPI)—I analyze the students’ backgrounds, factional affiliations, daily experiences as KUTV students, and subsequent career trajectories. The analysis reveals that these pioneering Korean students at KUTV originated predominantly from Hamgyŏng Province. Socially, they may be characterized as “marginal intellectuals.” Few arrived directly from Korea; more commonly, they were Hamgyŏng-born rural teachers or nationalist activists turned Communists who had entered Soviet Russia shortly before or after the 1917 Revolution, often after sojourns in northeastern China. Many were affiliated with the left-nationalist Shanghai faction, although it was ultimately members of the more orthodox Irkutsk faction who came to enjoy greater trust from the Soviet party-state. Nevertheless, certain Shanghai faction members among the early KUTV cohort later played significant roles in the development of the Korean Communist movement in northeastern China. By illuminating the experiences of these early KUTV students, this study seeks to reconstruct a largely overlooked formative stage in the evolution of the Korean Communist movement and its interactions with Comintern institutions.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). Eurasia Foundation Lecture Series: “Colonial-age Korean Socialism: Critiques of the Present and Visions for the Future of Eurasia Communities”. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This lecture will deal with the process through which Marxian socialism was domesticated and applied in different realms of society, thought and culture in colonial-age Korea. Seen as the alternative modernity, the way out from both premodern backwardness and modern predicaments, Marxian socialism gave life to a distinctively Korean brand of Marxist thought. Korean Marxism tended to focus its critique on such reified concepts as “nation” or “national culture,” while at the same time emphasizing structural inevitability of crises under the capitalist accumulation regime as Korea was being ravaged by consequences of the Great Depression. It enabled Korean intellectuals to criticise contemporary far-right totalitarianism in Europe and search for ways of gender liberation by empowering women and emphasizing their agency. It was predicated on a vision of an interconnected globe, a spatio-temporality in which concurrent developments in Soviet Union, Spanish Civil War or Chinese revolution were just as important as what was happening domestically, or inside the Japanese Imperial borders. While these alternative modernist visions were never fully realized, their impact on both post-colonial Korean states was in many ways decisive.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). 미국과 러시아, 겹치는 추락의 궤적 Miguk kwa Rŏsia, kyŏpch'inŭn ch'urak ŭi kwoejŏk (The United States and Russia: Converging Trajectories of Decline). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  I argue that Putinism in 21st C. Russia failed in its main ambition: it never reversed the post-Soviet decline of Russia. Trumpian policies also fail to arrest the hegemonic decline of the USA.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). 6·10만세운동의 역사적 의의 (Historical Meanings of June 10 Independence Demonstrations). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This is my keynote speech for the conference dedicated to the centennial anniversary of the June 10, 1926, pro-independence demonstrations in Seoul. I focus on the international context of these demonstrations and their reverberations in Korean history of the late 1920s-early 1930s.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). On the Politician Park Hŏn-yŏng (1900–1956). I Jackson, Andrew David; Nguyen, Sandy & Richards, Eva (Red.), Snapshots and Soundbites of Korean Culture. Routledge. ISSN 9781032970059. s. 125–127. doi: 10.4324/9781003591689-50. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  A short text describing the life and contributions of Park Hŏn-yŏng (1900–1956), a Korean Communist leader

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). 이스라엘, 우리들의 반면교사 Isŭrael, Uri tŭr ŭi Panmyŏn Kyosa (Israel, a Cautionary Tale for Us). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The column describes Israel as a 'negative model' of sorts for South Korea - as a society dependent on arms production and regular wars, and unable to achieve civil consolidation over ethno-religious barriers.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). Ch’oe Sŏng’u (VasilyTsoi, 1898-1937) and his Marxist Analyses of Colonial Korean Society: with Focus on the Role of Korean Bourgeoisie and Religious Groups. doi: https:/www.gnu.ac.kr/sskmarxism/cm/cntnts/cntntsView.do?mi=10141&cntntsId=5084. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The presentation deals with Ch’oe Sŏng’u's - and Comintern's - evolving views on colonial-age Korean society, and on the possible modes of anti-colonial collaboration with non-proletarian forces.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). 재스웨덴 조선인 조승복: 접경지대에서의 동아시아문화 연구 (Cho Seung-bog, a Korean from Sweden: Research on East Asian Cultures in a Contact Zone). doi: https:/korea.inha.ac.kr/inhakorea/2058/subview.do;jsessionid=B7E6349066FA74EF86F266445C9247E3?enc=Zm5jdDF8QEB8JTJGYmJzJTJGaW5oYWtvcmVhJTJGMzM3JTJGMTgwNjk1JTJGYXJ0Y2xWaWV3LmRvJTNG. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The presentation deals with Cho Seung-bog, a Manchuria-born ethnic Korean professor of Japanese Studies at Stockholm University, and his comparative studies on East Asian cultures.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). 폭력의 시대, 평화를 상상한다 (Imagining Peace in the Age of Violence). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The lecture deals with the challenges peace movements face in the age of geopolitical shifts and endemic warfare throughout the whole global system.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). '조선민중에 의한 독립항쟁의 역사'가 갖는 세계사적 의의 (World-historical Meaning of Korean People's Independence Struggle). doi: https:/m.cafe.daum.net/k-humanrights/ZiqK/114?svc=cafeapp. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The presentation dealt with the significance of popular self-organization from below in the course of independence struggle in colonial Korea.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). Revolution and Literature: The Trajectories of Global Socialist Culture. doi: https:/korean.hku.hk/post/apr-2-afterlives-of-socialist-and-leftist-culture-transnational-movement-beyond-east-asia. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  It is my keynote speech for the conference "Afterlives of Socialist and Leftist Culture: Transnational Movement beyond East Asia", to be held at Hong Kong University. I will focus on the historical roots and global implications of the socialist literary project

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). 이란 침공이 열어젖힌 각자도생 시대 Iran Ch’imkong-i Yŏrŏjŏch'in Kakchadosaeng Sidae (The Era of Everyone-for-themselves Opened up by the Invasion of Iran). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The article deals with the historical consequences of the current US-Israeli assault against Iran

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). 한강의 <작별하지 않는다>: 타자의 고통에 어디까지 다가갈 수 있는가? (Han Kang's <We Do Not Part>: How Closely Can One Approach Others' Suffering?). doi: https:/ksc.iuu.mn/%EA%B5%AD%EC%A0%9C%ED%95%99%EC%88%A0%EB%8C%80%ED%9A%8C/. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The presentation deals with the ways in which Han Kang treats the boundaries of empathy and trajectories of solidarity in her <We Do Not Part>.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). Soviet-Korean Involvement in 1920-30s Korean Communist Movement—The Case of Ch’oe Sŏng’u (Vasily Tsoi, 1898-1937). doi: https:/aas2026.eventscribe.net/searchGlobal.asp. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  During the Japanese colonial period (1910–1945), several Russian-born diasporic Koreans holding Soviet citizenship played pivotal roles in organizing the Communist movement within Korea proper. Among them, the case of Ch’oe Sŏng’u (Vasily Tsoi, 1898–1937) stands out as particularly distinctive. Born in Vladivostok and fluent in both Korean and Russian, Ch’oe was a high school dropout who nonetheless pursued an academic and Comintern career that few Soviet Koreans could replicate. He was the only ethnic Korean to graduate from the prestigious Institute of Red Professors in Moscow, where he studied under the prominent Marxist historian Mikhail Pokrovsky (1868–1932). As a senior official within the Executive Committee of the Comintern, Ch’oe provided analytical materials on Korea to Comintern leadership (Georgy Dimitrov and others), published extensively on revolutionary movements across Asia (prominently including Iran), taught Korean students at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East, and contributed to the drafting of programmatic documents for the Korean Communist movement. Drawing on archival evidence from both the Comintern and Japanese police sources, this presentation examines how Ch’oe—who, notably, had never set foot in Korea proper—navigated the complex terrain of balancing the expectations of his Comintern superiors with the internal divisions among Korean Communist factions.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). Koreans at Moscow’s Comintern schools in the 1920-30s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The lecture dealt with the Korean students and teachers at the Communist University of Eastern Toilers (KUTV) and International Lenin School in the 1920-30s.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). 폭로와 ‘진실의 순간’: ‘엡스틴 파일’은 무엇을 보여주는가 P'okno wa “Chinsir ŭi Sun'gan”: “Epsŭt'in P'ail” ŭn muŏsŭl p-yŏjunŭn'ga (Exposure and the “Moment of Truth”: What Do the “Epstein Files” Reveal?). Hangyoreh sinmun. ISSN 1228-4017. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The article deals with the socio-political fallout of "Epstein files" release.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). Moral Authoritarianism: Neighborhood Associations in the Three Koreas, 1931–1972 by Shinyoung Kwon (review). Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. ISSN 0073-0548. 85(2), s. 369–369. doi: 10.1353/jas.2025.a981159. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Review of <Moral Authoritarianism: Neighborhood Associations in the Three Koreas, 1931–1972> by Shinyoung Kwon - a research on neighbourhood associations in colonial and post-colonial Koreas

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2026). 왜 노동계급 청년들은 극우에 끌리는가? Wae Nodong Kyegŭp ch’ŏngnyŏn tŭr ŭn kŭgu e kkŭllinŭn’ga? (Why are Working-class Youth Attracted to far Right?). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The article deals with the reasons for the turn to the far Right among young working-class males in a number of high-income societies.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). Introduction to the special issue: “Cho Seung-bog (1922-2012): at the Crossroads of Academia and Activism”. European Journal of Korean Studies. ISSN 2631-4134. 25(1), s. 1–4. doi: 10.33526/ejks.20252501.1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This special issue deals with the multifaceted roles of Professor Cho Seung-bog (Cho Sŭngbok 趙承福, 1922-2012), one of the founders of post-war Korean and Japanese studies in Sweden. Concurrently with his academic career, he was active in Korean diaspora socio-political movements, including those advocating peace, democratization and reunification of North and South Korea. This special issue aims to clarify the deep interrelationship between Cho’s academic and socio-political commitments. His research in linguistics, his primary discipline, focused on Korean and Japanese sociolinguistics but also included cultural studies. Cho’s political views and commitments were inextricable from his academic life and underpinned his close connections with Eastern European colleagues across the dividing lines of the Cold War.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). ‘포스트 서구 세계’가 다가온다 'P'oseut'eu Seogu Segye' ga tagaonda (The 'Post-Western World' Is Coming Closer). doi: https:/www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion/column/1232522.html. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The article deals with the relative decline of the Euro-American power centers in the geoeconomics and geopolitics of the 2020s.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). 극우 포퓰리즘: 뿌리, 현주소, 대응 Far Right Populism: the Roots, the Present Status, the Countermeasures. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The lecture will deal with the socio-economic roots of far Right populism, and the ways of effectively countering it.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). Russland og Nord-Korea: Våpenbrødre for alltid? doi: https:/www.uio.no/om/samarbeid/skole/fagped-dag/program.html. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Presentasjonen handlet om utviklingen av meget tett samarbeid mellom Russland og Nord-Korea i de tre siste årene

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). 캄보디아는 우리에게 무엇인가? K'ambodia nŭn Uri ege Muŏshin'ga? (What is Cambodia to Us?). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The column deals with the current discourses on Cambodia in South Korean society, as seen through the lens of the "sub-imperialism" theory.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). Korea: handelstekniske og kulturelle normer. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Presentasjonen handlet om de normene som gjelder med forretningsmessige kontakter og forhold i Sør-Korea

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). Kim Chǒngha (⾦⿍夏, 1897-1938), an “Unreliable” Revolutionary. doi: https:/icks.snu.ac.kr/main/ko/sub/community/notice_read.asp?BOARD_IDX=366. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The presentation will deal with Kim Chǒngha, a non-mainstream Korean revolutionary, and his rise and fall in the Comintern apparatus. It will examine the principles which governed Comintern's personnel policy in relationship to Korean Communists

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). Mat og nasjonalisme i Sør-Korea. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Forelesningen handlet om den gastronomiske nasjonalismen i dagens Sør-Korea

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). Keynote Speech: Radical feminism and struggle for gender equality in Korean history. doi: https:/drive.google.com/file/d/1R4kOb4JktHZFPdCQBtstwwOkxERTGjsg/view?fbclid=IwY2xjawNUbIpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETB0cURZbXlibXNzcGUxNWowAR5GraUgbOhajWZ5FZXrktOAkhGkd1m9OQWYTsrwPQLIDPNFBW9y5YHoApZqEA_aem_qfXKilJypux65hDSUZHS2A. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This keynote speech deals with the development of radical and Marxist feminism in Korea since the 1920s and until the early 2020s.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). 이민 정책, 근본부터 바꾸어야 한다 Imin Chŏngch'aek, Kŭnbonbut'ŏ Pakkuŏya Handa ([South Korean] Immigration Policy Should Be Completely Revised). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The article deals with the main problems of South Korea's excessively restrictive immigration policy

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). 이이제이의 시대 Iijei ŭi Sidae - The Age of Manoeuvring. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion/column/1212935.html

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). Yi Ch'ŏngwŏn (李淸源,1914-?) and his Korean History Research: Understanding North Korean Historiography's Roots. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://burkle.ucla.edu/cseas/event/17088

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). Red Decades in Korea: Marxist Socialism as Alternative Modern Culture. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://jordanrussiacenter.org/events/red-decades-in-korea-marxist-socialism-as-alternative-modern-culture This lecture, based on Vladimir Tikhonov’s recent book, The Red Decades: Communism as Movement and Culture in Korea, 1919-1945, will deal with the process through which Marxian socialism was domesticated and applied in different realms of society, thought and culture in colonial-age Korea. Seen as the alternative modernity, the way out from both premodern backwardness and modern predicaments, Marxian socialism gave life to a distinctively Korean brand of Marxist thought which focused its critique on such reified concepts as “nation” or “national culture.” It enabled Korean intellectuals to criticise contemporary far-right totalitarianism in Europe and search for ways of gender liberation by empowering women and emphasizing their agency. It was predicated on a vision of an interconnected globe, a spatio-temporality in which concurrent developments in Soviet Union or Chinese revolution were just as important as what was happening domestically, or inside the Japanese Imperial borders. As Vladimir Tikhonov argues, while these alternative modernist visions were never fully realized, their impact on both post-colonial Korean states was in many ways decisive.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). Creating a Soviet Korean Nation: Ch’oe Horim’s (1896-1960) Literature as Diasporic Nation Building. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This presentation will deal with Ch’oe Horim (1896-1960), an important representative of the Soviet-Korean literary world of the 1920s and 1930s who remains unresearched so far in Anglophone academia. A Korea-born schoolteacher of peasant background, later a Communist guerilla commander in Russian Far East, a poet and the editor-in-chief of Sŏngbong (The Vanguard), the central Soviet-Korean newspaper, in 1932 and 1935-6, Ch’oe stood in the very centre of Soviet-Korean diasporic nation building project. As I will argue, this project was comprehensive enough to include the development of modernized Soviet Korean language (with hundreds of translated terms needed for Soviet Koreans to function in rapidly modernizing Soviet society), Soviet Korean literature weaving together traditional motifs and stylistics and Soviet ideology, Soviet Korean theater and ethnic education system. I will especially focus on how Ch’oe’s poetry attempted to modernize, in a specifically Soviet way, the pre-existing national literary tradition. While the project Ch’oe devoted his lifework to was thwarted by Stalinist forced deportation of Soviet Koreans from the Far East to Central Asia in 1937, I will argue that its legacies were important for the future developments in both Soviet Korean and North Korean culture, literature included. I will attempt to trace the formative influences of Ch’oe’s poetry in the work of such Soviet Korean-turned-North Korean literary figures as, for example, Cho Kich’ŏn (1913-1951). Overall, my presentation will provide the first-ever introduction to Ch’oe’s life and work in English. https://asianstudies.confex.com/asianstudies/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/15280

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). 조승복의 한국, 중국, 일본 문화론 (Cho Seungbog's theory of Korean, Chinese and Japanese cultures). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The presentation deals with the cultural studies approaches employed by Cho Seungbog (1922-2012), the founder of Japanese and Korean studies in Sweden.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). Second presidency of Donald Trump, the rapidly changing world situation and the road to peace on the Korean Peninsula. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://www.facebook.com/gnumarx/photos/%EC%95%88%EB%85%95%ED%95%98%EC%84%B8%EC%9A%94-%EA%B2%BD%EC%83%81%EA%B5%AD%EB%A6%BD%EB%8C%80%ED%95%99%EA%B5%90-ssk%EC%97%B0%EA%B5%AC%EB%8B%A8%EA%B3%BC-%EC%9A%A9%ED%98%9C%EC%9D%B8-%EA%B5%AD%ED%9A%8C%EC%9D%98%EC%9B%90%EC%8B%A4-%EA%B3%B5%EB%8F%99%EC%A3%BC%EC%B5%9C-%EC%A0%95%EC%B1%85-%EC%84%B8%EB%AF%B8%EB%82%98%EA%B0%80-%EC%97%B4%EB%A6%BD%EB%8B%88%EB%8B%A4%ED%8A%B8%EB%9F%BC%ED%94%84-2%EA%B8%B0%EC%99%80-2024%EB%85%84-%EA%B3%84%EC%97%84-%EC%82%AC%ED%83%9C-%ED%95%9C%EB%B0%98%EB%8F%84-%ED%8F%89%ED%99%94%EC%99%80-%EC%A7%84%EB%B3%B4%EC%A7%84/1207161524446893/?_rdr

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). Ch’oe Horim (1896-1960) and ‘Red’ Korean Diasporic Nationalism in Russian Far East. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This presentation will deal with Ch’oe Horim (1896-1960), a Soviet-Korean revolutionary intellectual and Communist Party bureaucrat whose life and works remain so far unknown in Anglophone academia. A peasant son from Korea’s northern borderland, Ch’oe arrived to Russian Far East in 1918. He soon acquired prominence there as a guerilla commander during the Russian Civil War (1918-22), poet, journalist and Communist Party cadre: in Russia, Ch’oe transitioned from revolutionary nationalism to nationally tinged Bolshevism, becoming a Party member in 1919. After the end of Russian Civil War, Ch’oe became one of the key ethnic Korean cadres in Russian Far East, supervising collectivisation of Korean peasantry in the late 1920s and editing Sǒnbong (The Vanguard), the main Party newspaper for Korean readers, in 1932-36. He was known as a controversial poet employing rather conservative traditional stylistics for what was purported to be ethnic Korean revolutionary poetry, and a courageous journalist who revealed in a number of his Sǒnbong articles in the late 1920s-early 1930s the mind-boggling extent of racist abuse against Korean diaspora perpetrated both by ordinary Slavic settlers and even low- and middle-level Slavic Party cadres. Given his record, it is little wonder that he was arrested already in 1936, even before the start of the Great Purges in early 1937: he was then imprisoned three times and died in Central Asian exile. The focus of this presentation is the political discourse underpinning Ch’oe’s highly diverse artistic and journalistic activities. I would define it as Korean diasporic national-Bolshevism, and will attempt to contextualize it as a part of a huge wave of the 1920-30s ethnicized Bolshevist discourses and practices. Furthermore, I will compare it with the politics of other key actors in Russian Far East’s Korean diasporic milieu.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). 우크라이나 전쟁의 결산 Uk'ŭraina Chŏnjaeng ŭi Kyŏlsan (A Sum-up for the Ukrainian War). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion/column/1183133.html

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). South Korea’s Right-Wing Movement: Historical Revisionism, Toxic Masculinity, Sinophobia. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/173944057/KS_Frankfurt_Online_International_Summer_School_2025_Program_Brochure_FINAL.pdf South Korea’s militant far Right acquired international notoriety after the abortive self-coup attempt by the – now impeached – former president Yoon Suk Yeol (Yun Sŏngnyŏl). The attempt met with overwhelming resistance by citizenry and was eventually defeated, but it also demonstrated the existence of ca 10-15 percent of South Korean electorate who supported the coup on the basis of their far-Fight convictions. More worrisome is the fact that some of these convictions, albeit possibly in a softer form, are also widespread among broader social strata. As I demonstrate in my lecture, these convictions rely on a particular interpretation of Korean – and world – history associated with the ‘New Right’ tendency in contemporary South Korean public space. ‘New Rights’ consider capitalism the only possible form of ‘modern civilization’ and interpret most of what such capitalist powers as Japan or USA have been doing in Korea and elsewhere in predominantly positive light, while demonising “Communist” China. Sinophobia is yet another salient feature of South Korean far-Right ideology which I am going to focus on. It overlaps and intersects with Islamophobia, homophobia and antifeminism. I will attempt to shed light on both similarities and differences between far-Right ideas in South Korea and elsewhere

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). Trajectories of Modern and Contemporary Femininity and Masculinity in Korea. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). ‘종족적 배타주의’는 새 정부의 미래가 아니다 ‘Chongjokjeok Paet'ajueui’ neun sae Cheongbu eui mirae ga anida ('Ethnic Exclusion' is not New Government's Future). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion/column/1200916.html

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). 러-우 양국 민중 이익 위해 러시아 침략에 반대한다 Rŏ-u Yangguk Minjung iik Wihae Rŏshia Ch'imnyak e Pandaehanda (I Oppose Russian Invasion in the Name of both Ukrainian and Russian Peoples' Interests). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://h21.hani.co.kr/arti/politics/politics_general/57185.html

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). 반동의 시대, 조선의 마르크스주의 운동은 우리에게 무엇인가? (What is [Colonial-Age] Korean Marxist Movement to Us in the Times of Reaction?). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://www.facebook.com/hanibook.kr/photos/-%EA%B4%91%EB%B3%B5-80%EC%A3%BC%EB%85%84-%EA%B8%B0%EB%85%90-%EB%B6%89%EC%9D%80-%EC%8B%9C%EB%8C%80%EB%B6%81%ED%86%A0%ED%81%AC-%EB%B0%98%EB%8F%99%EC%9D%98-%EC%8B%9C%EB%8C%80-%EC%A1%B0%EC%84%A0-%EB%A7%88%EB%A5%B4%ED%81%AC%EC%8A%A4%EC%A3%BC%EC%9D%98-%EC%9A%B4%EB%8F%99%EC%9D%80-%EC%9A%B0%EB%A6%AC%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C-%EB%AC%B4%EC%97%87%EC%9D%B8%EA%B0%80192030%EB%85%84%EB%8C%80-%EC%A1%B0%EC%84%A0%EC%97%90%EC%84%9C-%EA%B0%80%EC%9E%A5-%EC%B9%98%EC%97%B4%ED%95%98%EA%B2%8C-%ED%95%AD%EC%9D%BC%ED%88%AC%EC%9F%81%EC%9D%84-%EC%9D%B4/1048797120570070/?_rdr

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). <세상을 바꾸는 왼쪽의 길 - 극우의 시대에 청년이 묻다> (A World-changing Leftist Pathway: Youth Ask Questions in the Time of Far-Right Surge). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://x.com/laborkryouth/status/1948650788265304109

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). Modern Statehood and Constitutionalist Ideas in Pre-Colonial Korea, the 1880s to 1910. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://isks.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/nolink-1.pdf

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). 1930년대 소련의 한인 문학: 최호림의 시 세계와 민족 공산주의 (Soviet-Korean Literature of the 1930s: Ch'oe Horim's Poetic World and National Communism). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). 국제 사회 다극화 시대의 글로벌 코리아학 (Global Korean Studies in the Multipolarity Age in International Society). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://isks.org/icks

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). 윤석열 내란의 세계사적 맥락 Yun Seok ryeol Naeran eui Segyesajeok Maengnak (The World-Historic Context of Yoon Suk Yeol's Coup Attempt). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion/column/1176845.html

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). ‘혐중’이란 병을 어떻게 치료할 것인가 'Hyŏmjung'iran Pyŏng ŭl Ŏttŏk'e Ch'iryohal Kŏshin'ga (How the Disease Called 'Sinophobia' Can Be Cured). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion/column/1194997.html

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). Second presidency of Donald Trump, the rapidly changing world situation and the road to peace on the Korean Peninsula. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). 이제 미국 이후의 세계를 준비해야 한다 Ije Miguk ihu ŭi segye rŭl chunbihaeya handa (Now [we are to] Prepare for a Post-American World). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion/column/1188909.html

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). North Korea’s Communist Dissident – Hǒ Chin (1928-1997) and his Secret History of Kim Il Sung Dynasty (1982). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://ascjapan.org/2023-ascj-conference-schedule/

• Kim, Deokmin & Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). 머리말 Mŏrimal (Introduction). I Tikhonov, Vladimir & Kim, Deokmin (Red.), 한국자본주의의 위기: 마르크스주의적 국제 비교 분석 Han'guk Chabonjuŭiŭi Wigi: Marŭk'ŭsŭjuŭijŏk Kukche Pigyo Punsŏk (South Korean Capitalism in Crisis: Marxist International Comparative Analysis). Chininjin. ISSN 9788963476292. s. 3–19. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The introduction was co-written by me and Prof. Kim Deokmin (economics, Gyongsang National University)

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2025). 한국의 ‘진보’는 왜 우크라이나를 때리나 Han'gug ŭi 'Chinbo' nŭn Wae Uk'ŭraina rŭl Ttaerina (Why South Korean 'Progressives' Lambast Ukraine?). Hangyoreh21. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://h21.hani.co.kr/arti/politics/politics_general/57017.html

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). K-dramaer - historien og nåtiden (K-dramas - the History and the Present). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). 새로운 전쟁·다원패권 시대, 세계와 한반도의 미래는? Saeroun Chŏnjaeng, Tawŏn P'aegwŏn Shidae Segye wa Hanbando ŭi Mirae nŭn? (The New Age of Wars and Plural Hegemony - the Future of the World and Korean Peninsula?). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  My contribution on the issue of geopolitics in the hegemonic interregnum periods.

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). ‘큰 북한’으로 변해가는 러시아 K'eun Pukhan euro Pyeonhae kaneun Reosia (Russia is Becoming a "Big North Korea"). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion/column/1143528.html

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). 한국의 '글로벌' 담론을 추적하다 Han'guk ŭi Kŭllobŏl Tamnon ŭl Ch'ujŏk'ada (Tracing South Korea's 'Global' Discourses). Ch'angjak-kwa pip'eong (Creation and Criticism). 203, s. 1–10. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). Yi Ch’ŏngwŏn (李淸源, 1914-?) and his 1947 Modern History of Korea (<朝鮮近代史硏究>): Understanding North Korean Historiography’s Roots. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/7260894275?pwd=c2RnMnc4bkJRelVTMjBEcGF6VVlLUT09 Meeting ID: 726 089 4275 Passcode: d3kHQG

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). 세계체제, 패권,전쟁: 우리 시대에 대한 체계적인 이해 The World-system, Hegemony, War: A Structural Understanding of our Times. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  참가 Zoom 회의 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84934034390 회의 ID: 849 3403 4390

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). 러시아는 왜 전쟁을 멈출 수 없는가? (Why Russia Cannot Stop its War?). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfgnpREHD0__gsPj-VhEiGN4hKv2cUEQN-GGiV787cej6tWCQ/viewform

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Korean Left: the Phenomenon of ‘Leftist Putinism’. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://www.gnu.ac.kr/sskmarxism/cm/cntnts/cntntsView.do?mi=10141&cntntsId=5084

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). 전쟁의 시대를 어떻게 헤쳐나갈 것인가? 세계 정세와 한반도 평화 (How do we survive the Age of Wars? World's Political Situation and Peace in Korea). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  http://www.kyosu.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=119326

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). 미래로의 유일한 길, 생명 존중과 공감 Miraeroŭi Yuirhan gil, Saengmyŏng Chonjung gwa Konggam (The Only Way to the Future, Respect and Empathy for all Lives). Munhagin. ISSN 2765-3323. 15, s. 33–41. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). 세계화 이후의 혼란기, 저항을 어떻게 할 것인가? The Chaos in Post-Globalization Era: How Should [We] Resist? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://kdp.aks.ac.kr/board/boardView?BRD_SN=1230&BRD_GRU_SN=6

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). A War for the Coming Multipolar World? How Anti-Hegemonism Sometimes Evolves into ProPutin Stance among South Korean Left. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://ascjapan.org/2023-ascj-conference-schedule/

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). 한국 강경 우파가 패배할 수밖에 없는 이유 Han'guk Kanggyŏng Up'a ga P'aebaehal su pakk e Ŏmnŭn Iyu (Why South Korean Far Right is Doomed to a Defeat). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion/column/1133997

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). Soviet Jews As Historical Actors North of the 38th Parallel. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://asianstudies.confex.com/asianstudies/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/7176

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). 우크라이나, 미국 실패의 그림자 Uk'ŭraina, Miguk Shilp'ae ŭi Kŭrimja (The Shadow of American Failure over Ukraine). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion/column/1124647.html

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). 전쟁의 시대를 헤쳐 나가는 방법: 세계 질서는 어떻게 재편돼 가는가? Surviving the Age of Warfare: How is Global Order Metamorphizing Now? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10232513407200393&set=a.3137172630961

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). Book talk The Red Decades: Communism as Movement and Culture in Korea, 1919-1945. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://ccrs.ku.dk/calendar/2024/nordic-baltic-korean-studies-days-2024/?fbclid=IwAR3EzHZUVpwjshO798JKA2Zom8YfugSf434vNmMKUFb5pDTYfkA61JTT8BA

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). Kim Myeongsi 金命時, life and death of a female Korean revolutionary. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://news.uniroma1.it/27112024_1600

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). 박노자의 지금, 이 문장 Pak Noja eui Chigeum, i Munjang (Pak Noja's Text: Now). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/culture/book/1175305.html

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). 백마를 탄 여장군 김명시: 민족, 계급, 여성 해방의 이루지 못한 꿈 Female General Kim Myeongsi Riding a White Horse: The Elusive Dream of National, Class and Gender Liberation. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). 레닌그라드에 왔던 핀란드 자본주의 Leningeuradeu e Watteon P'inlandeu Chabonjueui (Finnish Capitalism which Came to Leningrad). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion/column/1138843.html

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). Roundtable Discussion: The Past, Present, and Future of Korean Studies. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://www.lu.se/evenemang/korea-day-nordic-research-korean-studies

• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). Stereotypes of Femininity and Masculinity in Modern and Contemporary Korea. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Tikhonov, Vladimir (2024). Book talk (English) on The Red Decades: Communism as Movement and Culture in Korea, 1919–1945. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=985897883349504&set=a.171779891427978

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