The human rights dictatorship : socialism, global solidarity and revolution in East Germany / Ned Richardson-Little.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richardson-Little, Ned, 1983- author.

Series:

Human rights in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Germany (East)--History.

Human rights.

Human rights--Government policy--Germany (East).

Human rights--Government policy.

Government, Resistance to.

History.

Dictatorship.

Germany (East).

Dictatorship--Germany (East)--History.

Government, Resistance to--Germany (East)--History.

Human rights and socialism.

Germany (East)--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

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 to be a champion of human rights, this book challenges popular narratives on the fall of the Berlin Wall and illustrates how notions of human rights evolved in the Cold War as they were re-imagined in East Germany by both dissidents and state officials. Ultimately, the fight for human rights in East Germany was part of a global battle in the post-war era over competing conceptions of what human rights meant. Nonetheless, the collapse of dictatorship in East Germany did not end this conflict, as citizens had to choose for themselves what kind of human rights would follow in its wake.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781108341295

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.