Defending Human Rights in Russia Sergei Kovalyov Dissident and Human Rights Commisioner 1969 96 Basees Curzon Series on Russian East European Studies 1st Edition by Emma Gilligan – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 0203348729, 9780415323697
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ISBN 10: 0203348729
ISBN 13: 9780415323697
Author: Emma Gilligan
Sergei Kovalyov is a central figure in the struggle for human rights in Russia. He was a leading Soviet biology academic and, in the 1970s after becoming active in dissident circles, was arrested by the KGB, tried, imprisoned and subjected to internal exile. After his release, he continued to work for human rights, eventually becoming chairman of the Soviet Human Rights Committee and chairman of the Presidential Human Rights Commission, in which positions he was extremely influential in framing human rights provisions in post-Communist Russia. He subsequently took President Yeltsin to task for human rights failings, eventually resigning in protest. This book, by tracing Kovalyov’s political career, shows how human rights developed in Russia in late Soviet and post Soviet times.
Table of contents:
Part I: Dissidentstvo
Part II: The Dissident Nomenklatura
Part III: The Supreme Soviet Human Rights Committee
Part IV: The Presidential Human Rights Commission
Part V: The Chechen War 1994 – 1996
Part VI: Troubling Times
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