Book contents
- The Human Rights Dictatorship
- Human Rights in History
- The Human Rights Dictatorship
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Creating a Human Rights Dictatorship, 1945–1956
- 2 Inventing Socialist Human Rights, 1953–1966
- 3 Socialist Human Rights on the World Stage, 1966–1978
- 4 The Ambiguity of Human Rights from Below, 1968–1982
- 5 The Rise of Dissent and the Collapse of Socialist Human Rights, 1980–1989
- 6 Revolutions Won and Lost, 1989–1990
- Conclusion
- Archival Sources
- Index
Introduction
The Exploitation of Man by Man Has Been Abolished!
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 April 2020
Book contents
- The Human Rights Dictatorship
- Human Rights in History
- The Human Rights Dictatorship
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Creating a Human Rights Dictatorship, 1945–1956
- 2 Inventing Socialist Human Rights, 1953–1966
- 3 Socialist Human Rights on the World Stage, 1966–1978
- 4 The Ambiguity of Human Rights from Below, 1968–1982
- 5 The Rise of Dissent and the Collapse of Socialist Human Rights, 1980–1989
- 6 Revolutions Won and Lost, 1989–1990
- Conclusion
- Archival Sources
- Index
Summary
Although East Germany and its state security agency, the Stasi, have become synonymous with human rights violations, the ruling SED considered itself a champion of human rights. The introduction outlines the implications of socialist human rights theory and politics and how it requires us to reconsider the history of GDR foreign policy, the rise of the dissent movement and the collapse of state socialism in 1989/1990.
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- The Human Rights DictatorshipSocialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany, pp. 1 - 15Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020