03101nam 22007334a 450 991082261250332120200520144314.01-134-34849-51-134-34850-91-280-23159-997866102315910-203-34872-910.4324/9780203348727 (CKB)1000000000249086(EBL)179829(OCoLC)316028505(SSID)ssj0000136078(PQKBManifestationID)11162425(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000136078(PQKBWorkID)10082401(PQKB)11103568(Au-PeEL)EBL179829(CaPaEBR)ebr10162497(CaONFJC)MIL23159(OCoLC)61847052(MiAaPQ)EBC179829(PPN)198452160(EXLCZ)99100000000024908620031216d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDefending human rights in Russia Sergei Kovalyov, dissident and human rights commissioner, 1969-2003 /Emma GilliganLondon ;New York, NY RoutledgeCurzon20041 online resource (243 p.)BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ;11Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.0-415-54611-7 0-415-32369-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-245) and index.Introduction -- Dissidentstvo -- The dissident nomenklatura -- The Supreme Soviet Human Rights Committee -- The Presidential Human Rights Commission -- The Chechen War 1994 - 1996 -- Troubling times.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 forBASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ;11.Human rightsRussia (Federation)Human rightsSoviet UnionHuman rights workersRussia (Federation)BiographyHuman rights workersSoviet UnionBiographyHuman rightsHuman rightsHuman rights workersHuman rights workers323/.092B86.81bclGilligan Emma1967-1758669MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822612503321Defending human rights in Russia4196866UNINA