UID:
almafu_9959236921202883
Format:
1 online resource (243 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-34849-5
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1-134-34850-9
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1-280-23159-9
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9786610231591
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0-203-34872-9
Series Statement:
BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; 11
Content:
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
Note:
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
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Introduction -- Dissidentstvo -- The dissident nomenklatura -- The Supreme Soviet Human Rights Committee -- The Presidential Human Rights Commission -- The Chechen War 1994 - 1996 -- Troubling times.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-54611-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-32369-X
Language:
English
Keywords:
Bibliografie
DOI:
10.4324/9780203348727
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0651/2003027448-d.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0412/2003027448.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2003027448-d.html
