The human rights dictatorship : socialism, global solidarity and revolution in East Germany
This study exposes the forgotten history of human rights in East Germany.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2020
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Human Rights in History
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| Schlagworte: | Human rights Dictatorship Government, Resistance to Human rights and socialism Human rights-Germany (East)-History Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | This study exposes the forgotten history of human rights in East Germany. Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Exploitation of Man by Man Has Been Abolished! -- 1 Creating a Human Rights Dictatorship, 1945-1956 -- Human Rights, Basic Rights or Class Rights -- Basic Rights and Socialism in Occupied Germany -- Ending Democracy, Embracing Human Rights -- Rights in the German Democratic Republic -- Protest without Human Rights in the 1950s -- Conclusion -- 2 Inventing Socialist Human Rights, 1953-1966 -- Human Rights as Antifascism -- Decolonisation, Self-Determination and Socialist Human Rights -- The Dangerous Mix of Propaganda and Law -- Conclusion -- 3 Socialist Human Rights on the World Stage, 1966-1978 -- The GDR and the Year for Human Rights 1966-1968 -- Impact of the International Year for Human Rights -- From Tehran to the Helsinki Accords -- Socialist Human Rights and the Helsinki Negotiations -- Triumph Amid Backlash -- Conclusion -- 4 The Ambiguity of Human Rights from Below, 1968-1982 -- Human Rights Protest and the 1968 Volksaussprache -- A Church for Human Rights and a Church in Socialism -- Human Rights and the Emigrationists -- Lost in Translation -- Conclusion -- 5 The Rise of Dissent and the Collapse of Socialist Human Rights, 1980-1989 -- From Peace to Human Rights, 1982-1984 -- Human Rights for Pluralism and Dissent, 1985-1989 -- Inspirations and Influences for an East German Human Rights Movement -- The Failed Declaration of Socialist Human Rights -- Losing Faith in Socialist Human Rights -- Conclusion -- 6 Revolutions Won and Lost, 1989-1990 -- From Dissent to Demonstrations -- Mass Movements for Human Rights -- Self-Determination for the GDR or for Germans? -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Erasures and Rediscoveries -- Archival Sources -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108560030 1108560032 9781108424677 1108424678 |