Defending human rights in Russia : Sergei Kovalyov, dissident and human rights commissioner, 1969-2003 / Emma Gilligan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilligan, Emma, 1967-

Series:

BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; 11.

BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kovalev, S. A. (Sergeĭ Adamovich), 1930-.

Kovalev, S. A.

Human rights--Russia (Federation).

Human rights.

Human rights--Soviet Union.

Human rights workers--Russia (Federation)--Biography.

Human rights workers.

Human rights workers--Soviet Union--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Introduction

Dissidentstvo

The dissident nomenklatura

The Supreme Soviet Human Rights Committee

The Presidential Human Rights Commission

The Chechen War 1994 - 1996

Troubling times.

Notes:

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-245) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-34849-5

1-134-34850-9

1-280-23159-9

9786610231591

0-203-34872-9

9780203348727

OCLC:

316028505