1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450348903321

Autore

Gilligan Emma <1967, >

Titolo

Defending human rights in Russia : Sergei Kovalyov, dissident and human rights commissioner, 1969-2003 / / Emma Gilligan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-34850-9

1-280-23159-9

9786610231591

0-203-34872-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Collana

BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; ; 11

Classificazione

86.81

Disciplina

323/.092

B

Soggetti

Human rights - Russia (Federation)

Human rights - Soviet Union

Human rights workers - Russia (Federation)

Human rights workers - Soviet Union

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-245) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Dissidentstvo -- The dissident nomenklatura -- The Supreme Soviet Human Rights Committee -- The Presidential Human Rights Commission -- The Chechen War 1994 - 1996 -- Troubling times.

Sommario/riassunto

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910146346603321

Autore

Mita Ferraro Alessandra <1965->

Titolo

Matteo Palmieri [[electronic resource] ] : una biografia intellettuale / / Alessandra Mita Ferraro ; prefazione di Cesare Vasoli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Genova, : Name, 2005

ISBN

88-87298-79-3

Descrizione fisica

xx, 552 p. : ill. (some col.)

Collana

Storia delle idee e delle istituzioni politiche, Medioevo ed Etáa moderna. Matteo Palmieri

Storia delle idee e delle istituzioni politiche. Medioevo ed età moderna Studi ; ; 8

Disciplina

320

Soggetti

Intellectuals - Italy - Florence

Intellectuals - Florence - Italy

Statesmen - Florence - Italy

Regions & Countries - Europe

History & Archaeology

Italy

Florence (Italy) Politics and government 1421-1737

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Contains appendix of texts in Italian or in Latin with facing Italian transl. (p. 495- 532).

M. Palmieri (1405-1475).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910895991703321

Titolo

Extramuros : revista de la Facultad de Humanidades y Educación U.C.V

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Caracas, Venezuela, : La Facultad, [1990]-

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Venezuelan literature

Arts - Venezuela

World politics

Arts

Intellectual life

Periodicals.

Venezuela Periodicals

Venezuela Intellectual life 20th century Periodicals

Venezuela

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Issues for <oct. 1998-oct. 2000> lack subtitle.