Freedom's Ordeal: The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Post-Soviet States

by Peter Juviler

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812234189
• ISBN13: 9780812234183
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"