The human rights dictatorship : socialism, global solidarity and revolution in East Germany / Ned Richardson-Little (University of Erfurt)

Klappentext: "Richardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light. By demonstrating how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself t...

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Auteurs principaux:Richardson-Little, Ned (Auteur)
Format: Livre
Langue:English
Publié:Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2020
Collection:Human rights in history
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Introduction: The exploitation of man by man has been abolished!
Creating a human rights dictatorship, 1945-1956
Inventing socialist human rights, 1953-1966
Socialist human rights on the world stage, 1966-1978
The ambiguity of human rights from below, 1968-1982
The rise of dissent and the collapse of socialist human rights, 1980-1989
Revolutions won and lost, 1989-1990
Conclusion: Erasures and rediscoveries.