The Black Panthers and the Soviets a comparative history of human rights movements Meredith L. Roman

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roman, Meredith L. (Meredith Lynn), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black Panther Party.

Human rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Human rights movements.

Human rights movements--Soviet Union--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Black power--United States--History--20th century.

Black power.

World politics--History--20th century.

World politics.

Civil rights movements--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London New York Bloomsbury Academic 2025

Summary:

"During the 1960s are analysed in a comparative fashion here for the very first time. The book also examines the extra-legal measures that both the KGB and FBI employed to destroy them.The Black Panthers and the Sovietsinnovatively compares Soviet human rights activists’ exposure of the workings of the Soviet police state with the miniature, city-level surveillance police states that the Black Panthers exposed as operating across the United States. It illuminates the legal tactics of counter-surveillance that Soviet rights defenders and the Black Panthers employed as a means of restraining acts of state-sanctioned violence. The book also highlights how the U.S. production of knowledge about Soviet ‘dissidents’ reified white supremacist, anti-communist notions of dissent, human rights, and state violence that facilitated the repression of the Black Panthers and the mass incarceration of African Americans as criminals.Meredith L. Roman disrupts the enduring Cold War binaries of authoritarianism-democracy and oppression-freedom that obscure our understanding of the complex, overlapping histories of these two superpowers. Roman convincingly argues that the Soviet rights defenders and the Black Panthers’ vast documentation of domestic human rights abuses and the repressive measures that they faced for mobilizing to end them serve as an important societal reminder; they reaffirm that genuine democracy and the safeguarding of human rights are incompatible with authoritarian practices,the conditions of racial capitalism, and the ideology of national security"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Liberation from a Soviet and American spiritual death

Counter-surveillance and decriminalization : the law, publicity, and aid programs

Reporting truth over lies : the chronicle of current events and the Black Panther community news service

Traitors and patriots : criminalization and valorisation in the Soviet and U.S. press

Counterintelligence and the hunted : incarceration, assassination, and betrayal

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from home page (Bloomsbury Collections, viewed August 15, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version Roman, Meredith L. (Meredith Lynn), Black Panthers and the Soviets

ISBN:

9781350436145

1350436143

9781350436152

1350436151

9781350436169

135043616X

OCLC:

1496392025

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license