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Oct 5, 2020 · Ned Richardson-Little’s The Human Rights Dictatorship recovers the history of human rights within the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In doing so, he provocatively reinterprets the Cold War, the evolution of human rights in the Eastern Bloc, and the revolutions of 1989.
‘Eagerly anticipated, Ned Richardson-Little's book breaks important new ground. Overcoming simple narratives of the GDR's erosion, he impressively uncovers the multiple meanings with which East German actors infused human rights - including state elites seeking to buttress their socialist project.
- Ned Richardson-Little
- 2020
Richardson-Little explains the apparent contradiction or hypocrisy in the communist collectivist dictatorship in the GDR representing itself as a pinnacle of human rights—founding the first human rights organization east of the iron curtain “two years before the founding of Amnesty International.”
Nicholas Thomas "Ned" Richardson (26 May 1886 – 19 January 1929) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy, Richmond and Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
By matching a focus on the development of human rights within elite SED circles with their elaboration by East German citizens, Ned Richardson-Little details the landscape of everyday political life in the GDR while also historicizing the very concept of human rights.
Ned Richardson-Little explores the mostly forgotten history of the human rights discourse in a Communist dictatorship. Believe it or not, East Germany tried to pose as a promoter of human rights in international and domestic affairs.
Dec 5, 2023 · During the Berlin elections held on October 20, 1946, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) unveiled a slogan that reversed the SED’s: “No Socialism without Human Rights” (31), insinuating a stark choice between a socialist dictatorship and a social democracy.
