Freedom's ordeal : the struggle for human rights and democracy in post-Soviet states /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Juviler, Peter H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Penn. : PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1998.
Series:Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Subjects:
Human rights > Former Soviet republics > History.
Democratization > Former Soviet republics.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Ex-URSS > Histoire.
Démocratisation > Ex-URSS.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Democratization
Human rights
Politics and government
Menschenrecht
Nachfolgestaaten
Aufsatzsammlung
Democratie.
Mensenrechten.
Human rights > Former Soviet republics.
Democracy > Former Soviet republics.
Commonwealth of Independent States.
Russian Federation.
Human rights.
Droits de l'homme > Russie.
Démocratie > Ex-URSS.
HUMAN RIGHTS.
CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS.
POLITICAL CONDITIONS.
DEMOCRATIZATION.
POLITICAL HISTORY.
USSR.
RUSSIAN FEDERATION.
Former Soviet republics > Politics and government.
Ex-URSS > Politique et gouvernement.
Soviet Union > Former Soviet republics
Sowjetunion
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Getting to Democracy
  • 2. Changing Russia
  • 3. The Contradictions of Communism
  • 4. Restructuring Rights
  • 5. Free at Last? Democracy in the Newly Independent States
  • 6. Varieties of Authoritarianism
  • 7. Democracy for Whom? The Baltic States
  • 8. Russia's Third Try
  • 9. Russia: The Context of Freedom
  • 10. The Struggle Continues.

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