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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Main Author: Gilligan, Emma, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
Series:BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; 11.
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Online Access:DE-862
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 253 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-245) and index.
ISBN:0203348729
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