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Human Rights and Political Dissent in Central Europe: Between the Helsinki Accords and the Fall of the Berlin Wall book cover

1st Edition

Human Rights and Political Dissent in Central Europe Between the Helsinki Accords and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Edited By Jakub Tyszkiewicz Copyright 2022
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction - Human Rights and Political Dissent in Central Europe: between the Helsinki Accords and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Jakub Tyszkiewicz

1. U.S. Policy toward Political Opposition in Poland (1975-1981)

Jakub Tyszkiewicz

2. Human Rights in British Policy on Poland (1975-1979)

Jacek Tebinka

3. Basket III Provisions in French and the Federal Republic of Germany policy toward the Polish People’s Republic (1975-1980): A Comparative Approach

Wanda Jarząbek

4. Human Rights in the Policy of Sweden toward Poland (1975-1981)

Paweł Jaworski

5. Between Human Rights and National Opposition: Polish Opposition (1976-1989)

Łukasz Kamiński

6. Exit, Voice, Duplicity: Human Rights in Romanian Understanding (1975-1989)

Cristina Petrescu

7. The Catholic Church, Human Rights and the Democratic Opposition in Communist Poland: The Case of Father Ludwik Wiśniewski

Bożena Szaynok

8. The Role of Human Rights in the Situation of Slovak Church and Persecution of Christians in Slovakia in (1975–1989)

Róbert Letz

9. John Paul II on Human Rights in Poland

Monika Jabłońska

10. Political Opposition, Human Rights and Political Changes in Czechoslovakia in 1989

Peter Jašek

11. Resistance, Dissent and Opposition Movements—Antecedents of the Hungarian Regime Change

Réka Kiss

12. Revisiting the Revolution of 1989: The End of the Communist Rule in Romania

Dragoş Petrescu

13. The United States and Hungary (1956-1990)

László Borhi

14. The Polish American Congress, Polish Diaspora and Human Rights Movement in Poland

Joanna Wojdon

15. The Ideas of Human Rights and Their Impact during and after Soviet Rule

Aaron Rhodes

Biography

Jakub Tyszkiewicz is Professor of History at the University of Wrocław, Poland.

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