Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War: A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network

by Sarah B. Snyder

Book Overview

Two of the most pressing questions facing international historians today are how and why the Cold War ended. Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War explores how, in the aftermath of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, a transnational network of activists committed to human rights in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe made the topic a central element in East-West diplomacy. As a result, human rights eventually became an important...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107001056
• ISBN13: 9781107001053
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"