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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| Main Authors: | Richardson-Little, Ned (Author) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2020 |
| Series: | Human rights in history
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsbeschreibung |
| Table of Contents |
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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. |
