HUMSS Colloquium 2.0 with Benjamin Nathans
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Prof. Dr. Benjamin Nathans
History, University of Pensylvania
Recorded on May 4, 2020
This talk explores the idea and practice of rights and the rule of law in an unlikely setting: late Soviet socialism. It offers a framework for understanding how Soviet dissidents, themselves products of Soviet civilization, created the Cold War’s “other” civil rights movement. Understanding this process - how orthodoxies contain the seeds of their own heresies - promises to shed light on a movement whose goal was to promote the containment of the Soviet state from within.
