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The human rights dictatorship : socialism, global solidarity and revolution in East Germany : [electronic book] /

By: Richardson-Little, Ned, 1983- [author.].
Contributor(s): ProQuest [vendor].
Series: Human rights in history: Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (xi, 274 pages).Content type: text | text Media type: computer | computer Carrier type: online resource | online resourceISBN: 9781108341295; 9781108341295:; 1108341292.Subject(s): Human rights -- Germany (East) -- History | Human rights -- Government policy -- Germany (East) | Germany (East) -- Politics and government | Dictatorship -- Germany (East) -- History | Government, Resistance to -- Germany (East) -- History | Human rights and socialism | Germany (East) -- Politics and governmentOnline resources: Access ebook here
Contents:
Introduction: the exploitation of man by man has been abolished! -- Creating a human rights dictatorship, 1945-1956 -- Inventing socialist human rights, 1953-1966 -- Socialist human rights on the world stage, 1966-1978 -- The ambiguity of human rights from below, 1968-1982 -- The rise of dissent and the collapse of socialist human rights, 1980-1989 -- Revolutions won and lost, 1989-1990 -- Conclusion: erasures and rediscoveries.
Summary: 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 as they were re-imagined in East Germany by both dissidents and state officials.
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Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013, titled Between dictatorship and dissent : ideology, legitimacy, and human rights in East Germany, 1945-1990.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the exploitation of man by man has been abolished! -- Creating a human rights dictatorship, 1945-1956 -- Inventing socialist human rights, 1953-1966 -- Socialist human rights on the world stage, 1966-1978 -- The ambiguity of human rights from below, 1968-1982 -- The rise of dissent and the collapse of socialist human rights, 1980-1989 -- Revolutions won and lost, 1989-1990 -- Conclusion: erasures and rediscoveries.

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 as they were re-imagined in East Germany by both dissidents and state officials.

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