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

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

Juviler, Peter

Hardcover

Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Eastern European HistoryRussian HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0812234189
ISBN13: 9780812234183
Publisher: Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr
Published: Oct 29 1997
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.53
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.55
Language: English
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 viability in postcommunist countries. Taking into account the particularly difficult legacies of Soviet communism, Freedom's Ordeal is distinguished by its careful tracing of the historical background, with special attention to human rights before, during, and after communism. Juviler suggests that the culture and practices of despotism may wither wherever modernization conflicts with tyranny and with the curtailment or denial of democratic rights and freedoms.

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