A01=Nanci D. Adler
and Government
and Government: Human Rights and Civil Liberties
Author_Nanci D. Adler
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Human Rights and Civil Liberties
Law
Politics
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- ISBN 9780275945022
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jul 1993
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Memorial began as a group of dissidents who secretly met to exchange stories of Stalinist repression, make contacts, and collect whatever records they could obtain to establish historical truths about Soviet totalitarianism. In Victims of Soviet Terror, Nanci Adler records how Memorial grew from a suspect organization to a powerful human rights movement that collects and disseminates information about Stalinism's crimes and has established a monument to the millions persecuted by the K.G.B. across from the Lubyanka, the shrine of totalitarianism. Using Memorial's own documents, interviews with its founders and supporters, and Soviet and Western news accounts, Adler examines Memorial's functions as a historical society and political force, particularly its efforts to posthymously try Stalin and Stalinist leaders for crimes against the Soviet people.
NANCI D. ADLER a graduate of Columbia University and the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands), is with the Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry and the Second World Center in Amsterdam. She is a contributor to numerous journals.
