Human Rights And Political Dissent In Central Europe

Author : Jakub Tyszkiewicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000479843

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Human Rights and Political Dissent in Central Europe by Jakub Tyszkiewicz Pdf

This volume examines to what extent the positive atmosphere created by the Helsinki Accords contributed to the change in political circumstances seen in the countries of Central Europe, under Soviet domination. It focuses in particular on - firstly - a consequent new impetus to bolster human rights in international politics, as Western democracies - especially the US - integrated human rights concerns into its foreign policy relations with Soviet Bloc countries and - secondly – how this Western embrace of human rights seemed to create new incentives for increased dissident activity in Central and Eastern Europe and from 1976 onward. Finally, the book reminds us of the significant role of the Helsinki Accords in developing democratic practices in Eastern European societies under Soviet domination in 1975-1989 and in creating the conditions for the peaceful transition to democratic government in the years that followed. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of the history of communism, post-Soviet, Russian, and central and East European politics, the history of human rights, and democratization.

Author : Kacper Szulecki
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030226138

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Dissidents in Communist Central Europe by Kacper Szulecki Pdf

This monograph traces the history of the dissident as a transnational phenomenon, exploring Soviet dissidents in Communist Central Europe from the mid-1960s until 1989. It argues that our understanding of the transnational activist would not be what it is today without the input of Central European oppositionists and ties the term to the global emergence and evolution of human rights. The book examines how we define dissidents and explores the association of political resistance to authoritarian regimes, as well as the impact of domestic and international recognition of the dissident figure. Turning to literature to analyse the meaning and impact of the dissident label, the book also incorporates interviews and primary accounts from former activists. Combining a unique theoretical approach with new empirical material, this book will appeal to students and scholars of contemporary history, politics and culture in Central Europe.

Author : Barbara J. Falk
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9639241393

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The Dilemmas of Dissidence in East-Central Europe by Barbara J. Falk Pdf

"In addition to the huge list of written sources from samizdat works to recent essays, Falk's sources include interviews with many personalities of those events as well as videos and films."--Jacket.

Author : Detlef Pollack,Jan Wielgohs
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015060610444

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Dissent and Opposition in Communist Eastern Europe by Detlef Pollack,Jan Wielgohs Pdf

This volume provides new material on the different developments of opposition groups and dissidence in various Communist countries in Eastern and Central Europe. It significantly contributes to and further develops sociological and historical insights into the development of protest and dissent within this region.

Author : Jane Leftwich Curry
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015008029632

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Dissent in Eastern Europe by Jane Leftwich Curry Pdf

Author : Leonidas Donskis
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042017276

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Loyalty, Dissent, and Betrayal by Leonidas Donskis Pdf

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Author : Janusz Bugajski,Maxine Pollack
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1989-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014578218

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East European Fault Lines by Janusz Bugajski,Maxine Pollack Pdf

Author : Stephen Denis Kertesz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258084910

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The Fate of East Central Europe by Stephen Denis Kertesz Pdf

Author : Jonathan Bolton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674064836

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Worlds of Dissent by Jonathan Bolton Pdf

Worlds of Dissent analyzes the myths of Central European resistance popularized by Western journalists and historians, and replaces them with a picture of the struggle against state repression as the dissidents themselves understood, debated, and lived it. In the late 1970s, when Czech intellectuals, writers, and artists drafted Charter 77 and called on their government to respect human rights, they hesitated to name themselves "dissidents." Their personal and political experiences--diverse, uncertain, nameless--have been obscured by victory narratives that portray them as larger-than-life heroes who defeated Communism in Czechoslovakia. Jonathan Bolton draws on diaries, letters, personal essays, and other first-person texts to analyze Czech dissent less as a political philosophy than as an everyday experience. Bolton considers not only Václav Havel but also a range of men and women writers who have received less attention in the West--including Ludvík Vaculík, whose 1980 diary The Czech Dream Book is a compelling portrait of dissident life. Bolton recovers the stories that dissidents told about themselves, and brings their dilemmas and decisions to life for contemporary readers. Dissidents often debated, and even doubted, their own influence as they confronted incommensurable choices and the messiness of real life. Portraying dissent as a human, imperfect phenomenon, Bolton frees the dissidents from the suffocating confines of moral absolutes. Worlds of Dissent offers a rare opportunity tounderstand the texture of dissent in a closed society.

Author : James M. Brophy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198845720

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Print Markets and Political Dissent in Central Europe by James M. Brophy Pdf

Moving book history in a new direction, this study examines publishers as brokers of Central Europe's political public sphere. They created international print markets, translated new texts, launched new journals, supported outspoken authors, and experimented with popular formats. Most of all, they contested censorship with finesse and resolve, thereby undermining the aim of Prussia and Austria to criminalize democratic thought. By packaging dissent through popular media, publishers cultivated broad readerships, promoted political literacy, and refashioned citizenship ideals. As political actors, intellectual midwives, and cultural mediators, publishers speak to a broad range of scholarly interests. Their outsize personalities, their entrepreneurial zeal, and their publishing achievements portray how print markets shaped the political world.The narrow perimeters of political communication in the late-absolutist states of Prussia and Austria curtailed the open market of ideas. The publishing industry contested this information order, working both within and outside legal parameters to create a modern public sphere. Their expansion of print markets, their cat-and-mouse game with censors, and their ingenuity in packaging political commentary sheds light on the production and reception of dissent. Against the backdrop of censorship and police surveillance, the successes and failures of these citizens of print tell us much about nineteenth-century civil society and Central Europe's tortuous pathway to political modernization. Cutting across a range of disciplines, this study will engage social and political historians as well as scholars of publishing, literary criticism, cultural studies, translation, and the public sphere. The history of Central Europe's print markets between Napoleon and the era of unification doubles as a political tale. It sheds important new light on political communication and how publishers exposed German-language readers to the Age of Democratic Revolution.

Author : Ferenc Laczó,Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633863756

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The Legacy of Division by Ferenc Laczó,Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič Pdf

This volume examines the legacy of the East–West divide since the implosion of the communist regimes in Europe. The ideals of 1989 have largely been frustrated by the crises and turmoil of the past decade. The liberal consensus was first challenged as early as the mid-2000s. In Eastern Europe, grievances were directed against the prevailing narratives of transition and ever sharper ethnic-racial antipathies surfaced in opposition to a supposedly postnational and multicultural West. In Western Europe, voices regretting the European Union's supposedly careless and premature expansion eastward began to appear on both sides of the left–right and liberal–conservative divides. The possibility of convergence between Europe's two halves has been reconceived as a threat to the European project. In a series of original essays and conversations, thirty-three contributors from the fields of European and global history, politics and culture address questions fundamental to our understanding of Europe today: How have perceptions and misperceptions between the two halves of the continent changed over the last three decades? Can one speak of a new East–West split? If so, what characterizes it and why has it reemerged? The contributions demonstrate a great variety of approaches, perspectives, emphases, and arguments in addressing the daunting dilemma of Europe's assumed East–West divide.

Author : Miroslav Marinovič
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Dissenters
ISBN : 9781580469814

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The Universe Behind Barbed Wire by Miroslav Marinovič Pdf

Ukrainian dissident Myroslav Marynovych recounts his involvement in the Brezhnev-era human rights movement in the Soviet Union and his resulting years as a political prisoner in Siberia and in internal exile.

Author : Bychawska-Siniarska, Dominika
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Protecting the right to freedom of expression under the European Convention on Human Rights by Bychawska-Siniarska, Dominika Pdf

European Convention on Human Rights – Article 10 – Freedom of expression 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises. 2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary. In the context of an effective democracy and respect for human rights mentioned in the Preamble to the European Convention on Human Rights, freedom of expression is not only important in its own right, but it also plays a central part in the protection of other rights under the Convention. Without a broad guarantee of the right to freedom of expression protected by independent and impartial courts, there is no free country, there is no democracy. This general proposition is undeniable. This handbook is a practical tool for legal professionals from Council of Europe member states who wish to strengthen their skills in applying the European Convention on Human Rights and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in their daily work.

Author : David Mason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429974366

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Revolution And Transition In East-central Europe by David Mason Pdf

Eastern and Western Europe continue to change in their relationship to one another and in their ongoing dynamic with the post-Soviet states. Economic development, electoral upheaval, and the Bosnian crisis all color the transition from communism to democracy and from a Cold War outlook to a new global order still taking shape.In this fully revised and updated edition of his popular and critically acclaimed text, David Mason brings the revolutionary events of 1989 into context with the transitional yet turbulent 1990s. We see new parties, new politics, new constitutions, and new opportunities in light of economic shock therapies, ?left turns? in recent elections, and dissolving sovereignties and alliances. Despite savage ethnic conflict, economic scarcity, and political insecurity, Mason shows us that East-Central Europe is consolidating and reemerging as a region to be reckoned with on the global stage.

Author : Lisa-Marie Komp
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000778144

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Border Deaths at Sea under the Right to Life in the European Convention on Human Rights by Lisa-Marie Komp Pdf

This book focuses on border deaths at sea. It unravels how the interplay of the law of the sea and rules on jurisdiction widen the opportunity for states to make and enforce rules outside their territory, and questions whether this is also accompanied with an obligation to respect the right to life under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) when doing so. By embarking upon the challenge of analysing a cross-border phenomenon in which direct encounters between state agents and the victims are few through the lens of legal obligations, the book unearths avenues for arguing that the ECHR is applicable to border deaths on the high seas and showcases the Court’s creativity in bridging the gap between the Convention and people in need of protection. Furthermore, it demonstrates that the ECHR is applicable to border deaths occurring within the territorial seas of states. It discusses the right to life, as well as the specific obligations of states in respect to border deaths at sea, and demonstrates that in many instances, EU policies fall short of the standards set under the right to life. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners in migrant rights, international human rights law, public international law including, refugee and migration law, maritime law, and security studies.