Defending human rights in Russia : Sergei Kovalyov, dissident and human rights commissioner, 1969-2003 /
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 f...
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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London ; New York, NY :
RoutledgeCurzon,
2004.
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| 丛编: | BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ;
11. |
| 在线阅读: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=106101 |
| 总结: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada. |
| 实物描述: | 1 online resource (viii, 253 pages) : illustrations |
| 参考书目: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-245) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203348729 9780203348727 041532369X 9780415323697 9781134348503 1134348509 9781134348459 1134348452 9781134348497 1134348495 9780415546119 0415546117 1280231599 9781280231599 9786610231591 6610231591 |