Human Rights in the Soviet Union; Including Comparisons with the U.S

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Preface Introduction Freedom: Some Definitions The Historical Logic of Restricted Emigration and Exit Comparative Analysis A Note on Sources The Asian Nationalities in the USSR Origins of Soviet Power in Central Asia Economic Development Welfare Education Cultural Development Politics Soviet Policy Towards Islam Anti-Soviet and Anti-Socialist Nationalist Attitudes and Movements Attitude of Soviet Asians to USSR Intervention in Afghanistan Conclusion The European Nationalities in the USSR Economic Development Health Care and Education Cultural Development Nationalism and Dissidence in the European Republics The Jewish People in the USSR Conclusion Women in the USSR The Rights of Women The Family, Housework and Child-Care Education Labour Outside the Home Protective Legislation Women in Political Positions Analysis Conclusion Economic Rights Living Standards Imports Social Consumption and the Social Wage Job Rights Rights of Participation in the Management of Enterprises General Enterprise Meetings and the Permanent Production Conferences The Role of Enterprise Branches of the Unions The Role of the Enterprise Branch of the Communist Party Job Rights in the USA Conclusion The Land of the Free The American Revolution and Civil Liberties Federalists vs Jeffersonians: 1798-1808 The Conflict over Slavery and Civil Liberties: 1830-77 The Repression of the Working-Class Movement: 1866-1914 Repression of the Left: 1917-24 Depression, War and Civil Liberty: 1930-45 Repression of the American Communist Party and Civil Liberties: 1947-56 The 1960s and Political Repression United States Support of Repressive Regimes Overseas in the 1960s and 1970s Conclusion Toleration and Repression in the USSR: 1918-54 Civil War, Invasion, and Relaxation (1918-27) How History Judges: I. Famine and Collectivization (1928-34) How History Judges: II. The Growing Threat of Invasion and ‘The Great Purge’ (1935-39) Traitor Mania and the Moscow Trials of 1936-38 The Numbers of Those Affected The Politics of the Executions: 1936-38 Causes and Effects Invasion, Reconstruction and the Renewed Threat of Invasion: 1941-54 Tolerance and Repression in the Soviet Union: 1965-82 Trends in Contemporary Soviet Policy and the Dissident Movement Definition of Dissident Activity in the USSR The Extent of the Dissident Movement Strategy and Tactics of the Dissident Movement Sanctions against Dissidents Dissidents Categorized as Schizophrenic Numbers of Dissidents Confined Political Tendencies of Dissident Activists Comparisons with the USA Conclusion Summary State Power and Civil Liberty Factors Determining the Level of the Civil Liberty of Public Advocacy The Class Basis of Civil Liberties Disinformation and the Cold War Trends in Rights in Capitalist and Socialist Societies Bibliography Index