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 ISBN 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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