TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gilligan,Emma
TI  - Defending Human Rights in Russia: Sergei Kovalyov, Dissident and Human Rights Commissioner, 1969-2003
T2  - BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
SN  - 9780203348727
AV  - JC599.R9 -- G55 2004eb 
U1  - 323.092 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Kovalev, S. A. -- (Sergeĭ Adamovich), -- 1930-;Human rights -- Russia (Federation);Human rights -- Soviet Union.;Human rights workers -- Russia (Federation) -- Biography.;Human rights workers -- Soviet Union -- Biography
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Series Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedications -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Dissidentstvo -- 2. The Dissident Nomenklatura -- 3. The Supreme Soviet Human Rights Committee -- 4. The Presidential Human Rights Commission -- 5. The Chechen War 1994-96 -- 6. Troubling Times -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - 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 human rights failings, eventually resigning in protest. This book, by tracing Kovalyov's political career, shows how human rights developed in Russia in late Soviet and post Soviet times
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