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Laurie Salitan: Human Rights and the Republics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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The human rights situation has continued to improve as glasnost matures and as Gorbachev's plan to establish a law-based society unfolds. The loosening of restraints, which has been linked to the process of democratization, has had a dramatic impact on human rights. At the same time, the nature of the human rights issue in the Soviet Union has shifted from what it was even last year. Large-scale demonstrations are now mundane events, as is the right to speak one's thoughts freely or to go to church. What has changed is that the process of enforcing or guaranteeing rights is now being generated from below, whereas in the beginning this process started from above. The reform process now has a life of its own among the people, who are demanding all sorts of things.
- Type
- Part I: The View From Above
- Information
- Nationalities Papers , Volume 18 , Issue 1: The Soviet Nationalities against Gorbachev , Spring 1990 , pp. 17 - 20
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1990 Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe