Táto séria sa ponorí do temných kapitol modernej histórie, kde katastrofálne porušovanie ľudských práv a masové zločiny zanechali nezmazateľné stopy. Skúma rôznorodé formy zverstiev, od genocíd a etnických čistiek po otroctvo a mučenie, naprieč globálnym časopriestorom. Dôraz je kladený na vznik nových štandardov ochrany ľudských práv a na snahy o nápravu a pamäť, čím sa snaží prispieť k prevencii budúcich zločinov a podpore univerzálnych právnych noriem.
Introducing evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects.
The international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in the struggle against totalitarian regimes, cruelties in wars, and crimes against humanity. This book offers a comprehensive account of this global force, from its beginnings in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to its essential place in world affairs today.
A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights workEvidence for Hope makes the case that yes, human rights work. Critics may counter that the movement is in serious jeopardy or even a questionable byproduct of Western imperialism. Guantánamo is still open and governments are cracking down on NGOs everywhere. But human rights expert Kathryn Sikkink draws on decades of research and fieldwork to provide a rigorous rebuttal to doubts about human rights laws and institutions. Past and current trends indicate that in the long term, human rights movements have been vastly effective. Exploring the strategies that have led to real humanitarian gains since the middle of the twentieth century, Evidence for Hope looks at how essential advances can be sustained for decades to come.
An authoritative examination of unspeakable horrors. . . . [D]eeply researched, fair-minded. . . . Suny creates a compelling narrative of vengeance and terror.--Kirkus, starred review
A global history of human rights in a world of nations that grant rights to some while denying them to others Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into some 200 independent countries that proclaim human rights—a transformation that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably develop together. But the reality is far more problematic, as Eric Weitz shows in this compelling global history of the fate of human rights in a world of nation-states. Through vivid histories from virtually every continent, A World Divided describes how, since the eighteenth century, nationalists have established states that grant human rights to some people while excluding others, setting the stage for many of today’s problems, from the refugee crisis to right-wing nationalism. Only the advance of international human rights will move us beyond a world divided between those who have rights and those who don't.
During the spring of 1933, Stalin's police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regime's cleansing of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to Siberia. This work weaves this episode into a broader story about the Soviet frenzy in the 1930s to purge society of all those deemed to be unfit.
Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. This book tells the story of these crimes.
Introducing evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects. číst celé
A collection of personal letters to friends from a foreign correspondent who is trying to understand what she witnessed during the iconic human disasters of our time - in Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and New York City on September 11th, among the other places.
Nicolas Werth beleuchtet ein bislang unbekanntes Kapitel der Stalinismus-Geschichte: die massenhaften Deportationen sogenannter 'sozial schädlicher Elemente' auf die Insel Nasino in Sibirien in den frühen 30er Jahren. Während in Deutschland die Nationalsozialisten an die Macht kommen, ordnet Stalin die 'Säuberung der Städte' an, was die Deportation von tatsächlichen und vermeintlichen Regimegegnern zur Folge hat. Diese Menschen wurden aus russischen Großstädten in die unwirtlichen Regionen Sibiriens gebracht und ihrem Schicksal überlassen. Werth erforscht die grausame Episode dieser 'Säuberungswelle' und schildert die Ereignisse auf der 'Insel der Kannibalen'. Tausende wurden auf Nasino ausgesetzt, wo viele verhungerten, während es zu Menschenjagden und Fällen von Kannibalismus kam. Werth stützt sich auf bisher unbekannte Dokumente aus dem zentralen Archiv des russischen Geheimdienstes, das für Forscher oft unzugänglich ist. In diesem vergessenen Gulag zeigt er eindrucksvoll, wie die stalinistische Utopie einer neuen Gesellschaft in einen vorzivilisatorischen Krieg aller gegen alle mündete. Werth, ein renommierter Historiker und Autor des 'Schwarzbuchs des Kommunismus', bringt Licht in diese dunkle Episode der Geschichte.
