Writing Human Rights into the History of State Socialism

Ned Richardson-Little Associate Research Fellow, University of Exeter Cross-posted from http://imperialglobalexeter.com/ 24/03/14 The collapse of the Communist Bloc in 1989-1991 is viewed as one of the great triumphs of the human rights movement. But this ignores how socialist elites of the Eastern Bloc viewed themselves: not as the villains in the story of human rights, but as the champions. In recent years, the rapidly expanding field of human rights history has done much to complicate triu..