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DisputedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0398 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Shinmin autonomous region (Korean People's Association in Manchuria) · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team

“The Korean People's Association in Manchuria governed an anarchist society of about two million people.”

Context. The figure circulates in popular anarchist accounts but exceeds most estimates of the whole Korean population of Manchuria at the time; no reliable count of the association's population exists.

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Anarchism in Korea: Independence, Transnationalism, and the Question of National Development, 1919–1984

Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870–1940

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