Freedom's Ordeal : the Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Post-SovietStates.

Fifteen countries have emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union. Freedom's Ordeal recounts the struggles of these newly independent nations to achieve freedom and to establish support for fundamental human rights. Although history has shown that states emerging from collapsed empires rarel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press 1997.
Colección:Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Temas:
Démocratisation > Ex-URSS.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Ex-URSS > Histoire.
Human rights > Former Soviet republics > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Human rights.
Soviet Union > Former Soviet republics.
Electronic resource.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Getting to Democracy
  • Chapter 2. Changing Russia
  • Chapter 3. The Contradictions of Communism
  • Chapter 4. Restructuring Rights
  • Chapter 5. Free at Last? Democracy in the Newly Independent States
  • Chapter 6. Varieties of Authoritarianism
  • Chapter 7. Democracy for Whom? The Baltic States
  • Chapter 8. Russia's Third Try
  • Chapter 9. Russia: The Context of Freedom
  • Chapter 10. The Struggle Continues
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index.

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