Ned Richardson-Little

The Human Rights Dictatorship

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Produktbeschreibung

By exposing the forgotten history of human rights in East Germany, this study places the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light, and demonstrates how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be a champion of human rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9781108440783
• ISBN-10: 1108440789
• Artikelnr.: 58664693

Autorenporträt

Ned Richardson-Little is a Freigeist Fellow at Universität Erfurt, Germany, where he leads a project on international crime and globalization. He received the Fritz Stern dissertation prize from the German Historical Institute Washington and a commendation from the Fraenkel Prize committee at the Wiener Library.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The exploitation of man by man has been abolished!
1. Creating a human rights dictatorship, 1945-1956
2. Inventing socialist human rights, 1953-1966
3. Socialist human rights on the world stage, 1966-1978
4. The ambiguity of human rights from below, 1968-1982
5. The rise of dissent and the collapse of socialist human rights, 1980-1989
6. Revolutions won and lost, 1989-1990
Conclusion. Erasures and rediscoveries.