LEADER 03101nam 22007334a 450 001 9910822612503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-134-34849-5 010 $a1-134-34850-9 010 $a1-280-23159-9 010 $a9786610231591 010 $a0-203-34872-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203348727 035 $a(CKB)1000000000249086 035 $a(EBL)179829 035 $a(OCoLC)316028505 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000136078 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11162425 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000136078 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10082401 035 $a(PQKB)11103568 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL179829 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10162497 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL23159 035 $a(OCoLC)61847052 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC179829 035 $a(PPN)198452160 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000249086 100 $a20031216d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDefending human rights in Russia $eSergei Kovalyov, dissident and human rights commissioner, 1969-2003 /$fEmma Gilligan 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York, NY $cRoutledgeCurzon$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (243 p.) 225 1 $aBASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ;$v11 300 $aSimultaneously published in the USA and Canada. 311 $a0-415-54611-7 311 $a0-415-32369-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [236]-245) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Dissidentstvo -- The dissident nomenklatura -- The Supreme Soviet Human Rights Committee -- The Presidential Human Rights Commission -- The Chechen War 1994 - 1996 -- Troubling times. 330 $aSergei Kovalyov is a central figure in the struggle for human rights in Russia. He was a leading Soviet biology academic and, in the 1970s after becoming active in dissident circles, was arrested by the KGB, tried, imprisoned and subjected to internal exile. After his release, he continued to work for human rights, eventually becoming chairman of the Soviet Human Rights Committee and chairman of the Presidential Human Rights Commission, in which positions he was extremely influential in framing human rights provisions in post-Communist Russia. He subsequently took President Yeltsin to task for 410 0$aBASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ;$v11. 606 $aHuman rights$zRussia (Federation) 606 $aHuman rights$zSoviet Union 606 $aHuman rights workers$zRussia (Federation)$vBiography 606 $aHuman rights workers$zSoviet Union$vBiography 615 0$aHuman rights 615 0$aHuman rights 615 0$aHuman rights workers 615 0$aHuman rights workers 676 $a323/.092 676 $aB 686 $a86.81$2bcl 700 $aGilligan$b Emma$f1967-$01758669 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822612503321 996 $aDefending human rights in Russia$94196866 997 $aUNINA