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Subject(s)

• Human rights—Russia (Federation). [Browse]
• Human rights—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Human rights workers—Russia (Federation)—Biography [Browse]
• Human rights workers—Soviet Union—Biography [Browse]
• Kovalev, S. A. (Sergei Adamovich) 1930- [Browse]

Series

• BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; 11. [More in this series]
• BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; 11 [More in this series]

Summary note

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

Notes

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-245) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Introduction
• Dissidentstvo
• The dissident nomenklatura
• The Supreme Soviet Human Rights Committee
• The Presidential Human Rights Commission
• The Chechen War 1994 - 1996
• Troubling times.

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ISBN

• 1-134-34849-5
• 1-134-34850-9
• 1-280-23159-9
• 9786610231591
• 0-203-34872-9

OCLC

• 316028505
• 61847052

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203348727

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