TY  - BOOK
AU  - Juviler,Peter
TI  - Freedom's Ordeal: The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Post-Soviet States 
T2  - Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
SN  - 9780812234183
U1  - 323.094709049 
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
KW  - Ex-URSS
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Démocratisation
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Former Soviet republics
KW  - History
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - Law
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political ideologies / Democracy
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202397
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