북한 간부이력서를 통해 본 일제 말 사회주의 운동과 네트워크의 연속성 －경성제국대학 법문학부 독서회 참여자를 중심으로－

Abstract

This thesis study analyzed the succession of members to the book club at the law and literature department of Keijō Imperial University, which connects two groups during the Japanese colonial period — Keijō Imperial University and the Keijō Communist Group. The book club, which researched Marxist works and socialist publications, continued as a group of seniors to a group of juniors beginning with the <Economics Research Society>. This network which formed in such a way did not end intramurally but ended up influencing practical movements. As a result, it was involved in the incident regarding the Wonsan Leftwing Committee for the Red Labor Union and the movement for rebuilding the Communist Party of Korea, and after a period of stagnation, the Keijō Communist Group eventually developed into a socialist movement network from an intramural network. The ‘young socialists’ namely the socialists who started to get involved in the Keijō Communist Group in 1940, which this paper focuses on, very much resembled the ‘last movement to rebuild the Communist Party of Korea’ as well as the Keijō Communist Group which was expressed as the matrix for the Communist Party of Korea that began after liberation’. Just as the Keijō Communist Group served as the matrix for rebuilding the Communist Party of Korea after liberation, students from Keijō Imperial University who were active in the Keijō Communist Group served important roles in the process of building the North Korean nation after liberation. In particular, a large of body students from the law and literature department of Keijō Imperial University were appointed to the literature department at Kim Il-sung University, revealing a continuity not just in terms of academics but also in terms of the history of the movement.