TY - BOOK AU - Snyder,Sarah B. TI - Human rights activism and the end of the Cold War: a transnational history of the Helsinki network T2 - Human rights in history SN - 1107645107 AV - KZ6030 .S69 2013 U1 - 323/.09047 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York, NY : PB - Cambridge University Press, KW - KW - Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Organization) KW - fast KW - Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe KW - (1972-1975 KW - Helsinki, Finland) KW - Final Act KW - Cold War (1945-1989) KW - Final Act (Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe) KW - Human rights KW - Europe, Eastern KW - Soviet Union KW - Human rights advocacy KW - Cold War N1 - "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." N2 - 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 ER -