Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. From Belov to Bukovsky – The Growing Awareness of Psychiatric Abuse 2. Shifting Psychiatric Concerns, the Special Committee and the Soviet Withdrawal 3. Prisoner’s Banquets, Ghosts, and the Ballet – The Women’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry 4. From Toothache to Keston, via Moscow – Michael Bourdeaux and the Centre for the Study of Religion and Communism 5. Attempting Impartiality – Amnesty International and the Soviet Union Conclusion: The Rush to Expertise Bibliography Index

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Assesses the British response to Soviet human rights violation in the period 1965-1985.

About the Author

Mark Hurst is Lecturer in History at Lancaster University, UK.

Reviews

Hurst succeeds … in providing valuable insights on the dedicated—and often deeply personal—engagement by the British actors. In addition, this work certainly contributes to the research on human rights NGOs and social movements in a British context and would indeed be useful for informing comparative work in other national settings.
*American Historical Review*

It is within Hurst’s very cogent narrative that the reader will discover excellent opportunities to draw distinctions between the work of international human rights organizations working against authoritarian states, both historical and contemporary.
*Human Rights Quarterly*

The copious notes and bibliography serve as a testimony to the painstaking work that makes this volume not merely an academic reference, but an engrossing read in its own right, bringing life to the names of both the Western human rights activists involved and the prisoners and persecuted whom they defended. It is essential reading for historians, politicians and anyone with an interest in Russia past and present.
*Journal of Ecclesiastical History*

Human rights activists may not have ended the Cold War by themselves, but thanks to works like Hurst’s, it is increasingly difficult to imagine the Cold War ending without them.
*European History Quarterly*