New Tools against the Soviet Union in the Political Work of the Latvian Diaspora in the 1970s-1980s: The Case of Human Rights Violations in the Soviet Union

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dc.contributor.authorBekere, Kristine
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-14T12:03:52Z
dc.date.available2024-06-14T12:03:52Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractStarting with, and initiated by, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in the first half of 1970s, the topic of human rights violations in the Soviet Union, and specifically in the Baltic states, became part of the Latvian diaspora’s political argumentation when lobbying against the Soviet Union in host countries. Almost unknown before, this topic was very prominent in the political activities of the 1970s and 1980s up until the disintegration of the Soviet Union. The issue of human rights violations in the political argumentation of the Latvian and Baltic diasporas as a whole has always been inextricably linked to the main political goal of these diasporas – the restoration of the right to political self-determination for the Baltic states. Without self-determination, human rights cannot be realized – this is how the basic principle of the diaspora’s position could be summarized. The diaspora’s rapid focus on human rights violations in particular demonstrates its ability to react quickly to current trends in society and to use issues of current public concern to shape its communication and advance its political cause.
dc.identifier.citation"The Exile History Review", 2023, No. 2, pp. 97-117
dc.identifier.doi10.31743/ehr.16822
dc.identifier.issn2956-4336
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/7512
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherKUL Publishing House
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectLatvian diaspora
dc.subjectanti-communism
dc.subjectBaltic States
dc.subjectUSSR
dc.subjectHuman Rights violations
dc.titleNew Tools against the Soviet Union in the Political Work of the Latvian Diaspora in the 1970s-1980s: The Case of Human Rights Violations in the Soviet Union
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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