Fyodor Tertitskiy is Leading Researcher at the Institute for Korean Studies at Kookmin University, South Korea. He studies North Korean military, social and political history and is the author of The North Korean Army: History, Structure, Daily Life (2022) andtwo Korean-language books on Kim Il-sung and his era.

1. The Beginning: Captain Kim Il-sung of the Red Army 2. The Week That Reshaped East Asia: The Soviet-Japanese War of 1945 3. The Soviet Governors of North Korea: Ivan Chistyakov and Terentiy Shtykov 4. Kim Il-sung's Rise to Power: How a Junior Officer Ended Up Leading a Nation 5. The North Korean Flag and Other Symbols: Made in the USSR 6. The Korean People's Army: Forged in the Soviet Image 7. The Korean War Through the Eyes of Pyongyang 8. The Famine of 1954-55: a Forgotten Tragedy 9. The Last Days of Summer: The Story of the August Plenum 10. Kim Il-sung's Road to an Independent Autocracy 11. Stalinism and Kimilsungism: A Comparison 12. Playing Scylla and Charybdis: North Korea and the Sino-Soviet Split 13. Why North Korean Propaganda Was Immensely Popular in the USSR 14. The Father State Dies: North Korea and the End of the Soviet Union