Human Rights Committee in the USSR

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The Human Rights Committee in the USSR ( Russian Комитет прав человека в СССР / Komitet praw tscheloweka v SSSR , scientific. Transliteration Komitet prav čeloveka v SSSR ; Engl. Committee on Human Rights in the USSR ), the German mostly under the name Committee for the implementation of human rights , is a human rights association founded in Moscow in November 1970 to investigate the problem of ensuring and promoting human rights in the USSR . This independent civil society was the second group of its kind in the Soviet Union, after the initiative group founded in 1969 to protect human rights in the USSR . The first protests had taken place against the arrest and conviction of the writers Andrei Donatowitsch Sinjawski and Juli Markowitsch Daniel in 1966.

The founders of the committee were Valery Nikolayevich Chalidze , Andrei Dmitrijewitsch Sakharov and Andrei Nikolaevich Tverdochlebov . Later Igor Rostislawowitsch Schafarewitsch , Grigori Sergejewitsc Podjapolskij , Alexander Sergejewitsch Jessenin-Wolpin , Boris Issaakowitsch Zukerman and Sofja Wassiljewna Kalistratowa belonged to it.

The committee's unofficial press was the Samizdat magazine Obschtschestvennyje problemy (“Social Problems”) published by Chalidze .

The Human Rights Committee was the first dissident association to receive international status: it became an associate member of the Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l'Homme ( International League for Human Rights ) and the Institut international des droits de l'homme ( International Institute for Human Rights ).

The committee's activities came to an end in the mid-1970s when Valery Nikolayevich Chalidze emigrated to the United States, Andrei Nikolayevich Tverdochlebov left the committee and Grigory Sergeevich Podjapolskij (1926–1976) died.

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. Алексеева Л., Голдберг П. Поколение оттепели (book trade link )
  2. ↑ Russian Общественные проблемы , scientific transliteration Obščestvennye problemy

literature

  • Хроника текущих событий, issue 17
  • Ludmilla Alexeyeva and Paul Goldberg: The Thaw Generation: Coming of Age in the Post-Stalin Era. Boston 1990, ISBN 978-0316031462
  • Edward H. Lawson (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Human Rights. Taylor & Francis, 1996 ( partial online view )
  • Клайн Э. [Edward Kline]: Московский комитет прав человека [Moscow Human Rights Committee]. Moscow: Права человека, 2004. ISBN 5771203084 (Russian)
  • Sakharov, Andrej D .: How I imagine the future. Thoughts about progress, peaceful coexistence and freedom of spirit. With an afterword by Max Frisch. Translated from the Russian by E. Guttenberger. Zurich, Diogenes Verlag 1968 (Размышления о прогрессе, мирном сосуществовании и интеллектуальной свободе, dt.)
  • Artem Galushko: Politically Motivated Justice in the Former Soviet Republics: A Comparative Analysis of Selected Trials in Western Europe and in the Former USSR. Budapest 2018, dissertation (available online)

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Human Rights Committee in the USSR (alternative names of the lemma)
Committee for the Enforcement of Human Rights in the Soviet Union; Committee for the Enforcement of Human Rights in the USSR; Committees for Human Rights in the USSR; Moscow Human Rights Committee on 1970; Human Rights Committee in the USSR; Комитет прав человека в СССР; Komitet praw tscheloweka w SSSR; Komitet prav čeloveka v SSSR; Committee on Human Rights in the USSR; Committee for the Enforcement of Human Rights