Defending human rights in Russia
Subtitle: Sergei Kovalyov, dissident and human rights commissioner, 1969-2003
By: Emma Gilligan.
Series: BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ;; 11
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Kovalev, S. A. 1930-; Human rights -- Russia (Federation); Human rights -- Soviet Union; Human rights workers -- Russia (Federation) -- Biography.; Human rights workers -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Dissidentstvo; title: The dissident nomenklatura; title: The Supreme Soviet Human Rights Committee; title: The Presidential Human Rights Commission; title: The Chechen War 1994 - 1996; title: Troubling times.