Poland's solidarity movement and the global politics of human rights
In the historiography of human rights, the 1980s feature as little more than an afterthought to the human rights breakthrough of the previous decade. Through an examination of one of the major actors of recent human rights history - Poland's Solidarity movement - Robert Brier challenges this vi...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,
2021
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| Titres liés à la collection: | Human rights in history
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| Sujets: | Human rights |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xvi, 269 pages) |
| Résumé: | In the historiography of human rights, the 1980s feature as little more than an afterthought to the human rights breakthrough of the previous decade. Through an examination of one of the major actors of recent human rights history - Poland's Solidarity movement - Robert Brier challenges this view. Suppressed in 1981, Poland's Solidarity movement was supported by a surprisingly diverse array of international groups: US Cold Warriors, French left-wing intellectuals, trade unionists, Amnesty International, even Chilean opponents of the Pinochet regime. By unpacking the politics and transnational discourses of these groups, Brier demonstrates how precarious the position of human rights in international politics remained well into the 1980s. More importantly, he shows that human rights were a profoundly political and highly contested language, which actors in East and West adopted to redefine their social and political identities in times of momentous cultural and intellectual change. |
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| Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 May 2021) |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xvi, 269 pages) digital, PDF file(s). |
| ISBN: | 9781108565233 1108565239 9781108478526 1108478522 9781108460491 1108460496 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781108565233 |