Human rights activism and the end of the Cold War : a transnational history of the Helsinki network / Sarah B. Snyder.
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TextSeries: Human rights in historyPublication details: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2013.Edition: First paperback editionDescription: x, 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN: - 1107645107
- 9781107645103
- Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Organization)
- Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Organization)
- Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (1972-1975 : Helsinki, Finland). Final Act
- Cold War (1945-1989)
- Final Act (Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe)
- Human rights
- Human rights -- Europe, Eastern
- Human rights -- Soviet Union
- Human rights advocacy
- Cold War
- Human rights
- Human rights advocacy
- Europe, Eastern
- Soviet Union
- 323/.09047 23
- KZ6030 .S69 2013
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"First published 2011. First paperback edition 2013"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Bridging the East-West divide : the Helsinki Final Act negotiations -- 2. "A sort of lifeline" : the Helsinki Commission -- 3. Even in a Yakutian village : Helsinki monitoring in Moscow and beyond -- 4. Follow-up at Belgrade : the United States transforms the Helsinki process -- 5. Helsinki watch, the IHF, and the transnational campaign for human rights in Eastern Europe -- 6. Human rights in East-West diplomacy -- "A debate in the fox den about raising chickens" : the Moscow conference proposal -- 8. 'Perhaps without you, our revolution would not be."
This work explores how, in the aftermath of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, a transnational network of activists committed to human rights in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe made human rights a central element of East-West diplomacy.
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