The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany

by Ned Richardson-Little

Book Overview

Richardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light. By demonstrating how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be a champion of human rights, this book challenges popular narratives on the fall of the Berlin Wall and illustrates how notions of human rights evolved in the Cold War...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108440789
• ISBN13: 9781108440783
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 8.9"