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



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Autore: Gilligan Emma <1967, > Visualizza persona
Titolo: Defending human rights in Russia : Sergei Kovalyov, dissident and human rights commissioner, 1969-2003 / / Emma Gilligan Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
Disciplina: 323/.092
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Soggetto topico: Human rights - Russia (Federation)
Human rights - Soviet Union
Human rights workers - Russia (Federation)
Human rights workers - Soviet Union
Classificazione: 86.81
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
Titolo autorizzato: Defending human rights in Russia  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-134-34849-5
1-134-34850-9
1-280-23159-9
9786610231591
0-203-34872-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783623003321
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Serie: BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; ; 11.