Poland's Solidarity Movement and the Global Politics of Human Rights (Paperback)

In the historiography of human rights, the 1980s feature as little more than an afterthought to the human rights breakthrough of the previous decade. Through an examination of one of the major actors of recent human rights history - Poland's Solidarity movement - Robert Brier challenges this view. Suppressed in 1981, Poland's Solidarity movement was supported by a surprisingly diverse array of international groups: US Cold Warriors, French left-wing intellectuals, trade unionists, Amnesty International, even Chilean opponents of the Pinochet regime. By unpacking the politics and transnational discourses of these groups, Brier demonstrates how precarious the position of human rights in international politics remained well into the 1980s. More importantly, he shows that human rights were a profoundly political and highly contested language, which actors in East and West adopted to redefine their social and political identities in times of momentous cultural and intellectual change.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Human Rights in History
Release date:	March 2023
Authors:	Robert Brier
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	285
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-46049-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	1-108-46049-6
Barcode:	9781108460491

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