| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) |
| Series |
Human rights in history |
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Human rights in history.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The exploitation of man by man has been abolished! -- Creating a human rights dictatorship, 1945-1956 -- Inventing socialist human rights, 1953-1966 -- Socialist human rights on the world stage, 1966-1978 -- The ambiguity of human rights from below, 1968-1982 -- The rise of dissent and the collapse of socialist human rights, 1980-1989 -- Revolutions won and lost, 1989-1990 -- Conclusion: Erasures and rediscoveries |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013, titled Between dictatorship and dissent : ideology, legitimacy, and human rights in East Germany, 1945-1990 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 29, 2020) |
| Subject |
Human rights -- Germany (East) -- History
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Human rights -- Government policy -- Germany (East)
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Dictatorship -- Germany (East) -- History
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Government, Resistance to -- Germany (East) -- History
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Human rights and socialism
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Dictatorship
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Government, Resistance to
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Human rights
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Human rights -- Government policy
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Germany (East) -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90002752
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| Subject |
Germany (East)
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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History
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Festschriften.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019042506 |
| ISBN |
9781108341295 |
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1108341292 |
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9781108560030 |
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1108560032 |
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