Defending Human Rights in Russia : Sergei Kovalyov, Dissident and Human Rights Commissioner, 1969-2003 Paperback / softback
by Emma Gilligan
Part of the BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies series
Paperback / softback
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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 human rights failings, eventually resigning in protest.
This book, by tracing Kovalyov's political career, shows how human rights developed in Russia in late Soviet and post Soviet times.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:12/05/2009
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- ISBN:9780415546119
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:12/05/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415546119
