Freedom's Ordeal : The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Post-Soviet States /
Juviler, Peter
Freedom's Ordeal : The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Post-Soviet States / Peter Juviler. - 1 online resource (312 p.) - Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Getting to Democracy -- Chapter 2. Changing Russia -- Chapter 3. The Contradictions of Communism -- Chapter 4. Restructuring Rights -- Chapter 5. Free at Last? Democracy in the Newly Independent States -- Chapter 6. Varieties of Authoritarianism -- Chapter 7. Democracy for Whom? The Baltic States -- Chapter 8. Russia's Third Try -- Chapter 9. Russia: The Context of Freedom -- Chapter 10. The Struggle Continues -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
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Fifteen countries have emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union. Freedom's Ordeal recounts the struggles of these newly independent nations to achieve freedom and to establish support for fundamental human rights. Although history has shown that states emerging from collapsed empires rarely achieve full democracy in their first try, Peter Juviler analyzes these successor states as crucial and not always unpromising tests of democracy's viability in postcommunist countries. Taking into account the particularly difficult legacies of Soviet communism, Freedom's Ordeal is distinguished by its careful tracing of the historical background, with special attention to human rights before, during, and after communism. Juviler suggests that the culture and practices of despotism may wither wherever modernization conflicts with tyranny and with the curtailment or denial of democratic rights and freedoms.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812234183 9780812202397
10.9783/9780812202397 doi
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)--Ex-URSS--Histoire.
Démocratisation--Ex-URSS.
Human rights--Former Soviet republics--History.
Human rights--History.--Former Soviet republics
Human Rights.
Law.
Political Science.
Public Policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political ideologies / Democracy.
323.094709049
Freedom's Ordeal : The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Post-Soviet States / Peter Juviler. - 1 online resource (312 p.) - Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Getting to Democracy -- Chapter 2. Changing Russia -- Chapter 3. The Contradictions of Communism -- Chapter 4. Restructuring Rights -- Chapter 5. Free at Last? Democracy in the Newly Independent States -- Chapter 6. Varieties of Authoritarianism -- Chapter 7. Democracy for Whom? The Baltic States -- Chapter 8. Russia's Third Try -- Chapter 9. Russia: The Context of Freedom -- Chapter 10. The Struggle Continues -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Fifteen countries have emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union. Freedom's Ordeal recounts the struggles of these newly independent nations to achieve freedom and to establish support for fundamental human rights. Although history has shown that states emerging from collapsed empires rarely achieve full democracy in their first try, Peter Juviler analyzes these successor states as crucial and not always unpromising tests of democracy's viability in postcommunist countries. Taking into account the particularly difficult legacies of Soviet communism, Freedom's Ordeal is distinguished by its careful tracing of the historical background, with special attention to human rights before, during, and after communism. Juviler suggests that the culture and practices of despotism may wither wherever modernization conflicts with tyranny and with the curtailment or denial of democratic rights and freedoms.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812234183 9780812202397
10.9783/9780812202397 doi
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)--Ex-URSS--Histoire.
Démocratisation--Ex-URSS.
Human rights--Former Soviet republics--History.
Human rights--History.--Former Soviet republics
Human Rights.
Law.
Political Science.
Public Policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political ideologies / Democracy.
323.094709049