Poland's solidarity movement and the global politics of human rights
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Poland's solidarity movement and the global politics of human rights
(Human rights in history)
Cambridge University Press, 2021
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In the historiography of human rights, the 1980s feature as little more than an afterthought to the human rights breakthrough of the previous decade. Through an examination of one of the major actors of recent human rights history - Poland's Solidarity movement - Robert Brier challenges this view. Suppressed in 1981, Poland's Solidarity movement was supported by a surprisingly diverse array of international groups: US Cold Warriors, French left-wing intellectuals, trade unionists, Amnesty International, even Chilean opponents of the Pinochet regime. By unpacking the politics and transnational discourses of these groups, Brier demonstrates how precarious the position of human rights in international politics remained well into the 1980s. More importantly, he shows that human rights were a profoundly political and highly contested language, which actors in East and West adopted to redefine their social and political identities in times of momentous cultural and intellectual change.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Rise of Dissent in Poland
- 2. Dissent and the Politics of Human Rights
- 3. 'The Principle of Non-Interference as Laid Down in the Helsinki Final Act': the Polish crisis, the Cold War, and Human Rights
- 4. The End of the Ideological Age: Human Rights and Ostpolitik
- 5. Solidarity, Human Rights, and Anti-Totalitarianism in France
- 6. The 'Bedrock of Human Rights': US Labor, Neoconservatism, and Human Rights
- 7. Letters from Prison: the Prisoner of Conscience and the Symbolic Politics of Human Rights
- 8. Lech Walesa, the symbolism of the Nobel Peace Prize, and Global Human Rights Culture
- 9. General Pinochecki: Poland, Chile, and the Global Politics of Human Rights Culture
- 10. Human Rights and the End of the Cold War
- Epilogue.
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