Russia's emergence as a leading opponent of universal human rights is one of the defining
features of the Putin era. Under the banner of 'traditional values', Russian diplomats and …

This article, focusing on the East Central European democratic opposition during the 1970s
and 1980s, explores the connections between human rights politics and efforts to reshape …

The aim of this paper is to use Sir William Crookes' researches into psychical phenomena as
a sustained case study of the role of epistemic virtues within scientific enquiry. Despite …

Das Interesse der Historiker am Thema Menschenrechte beschränkte sich lange Zeit auf
ideengeschichtliche Aspekte. Seit kurzem mehren sich jedoch empirische Studien, die …

The influential dissident Vladimir Bukovskii played a formative role in the creation of the
Soviet human rights movement and the exposure of the abuse of psychiatry in the USSR …

This dissertation examines Soviet approaches to human rights as a soft power issue across
three periods of challenge and innovation: the mobilization of international human rights …

This paper investigates the multifaceted universe of Russian intelligentsia and addresses
the following, troubling, questions: What caused pro-democratic political dissent to weaken …

This article offers the first scholarly account of the International Sakharov Hearings, which
were prompted by the so-called Moscow Appeal (1974) and took place in Copenhagen …

Das Putin-Regime dehnt seine Macht aus, unterdrückt die Opposition und die Autonomie
der Gesellschaft. Die Lage erinnert an frühere Epochen. Sacharov und Naval'nyj, deren …

Kathryn Sikkink (* 1955) is a political scientist who has contributed considerably to making
human rights a field of research. Born into a liberal academic family, she started developing …