By exposing the forgotten history of human rights in East Germany, this study places the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light, and demonstrates how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be a champion of human rights.
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Introduction. The exploitation of man by man has been abolished!; 1. Creating a human rights dictatorship, 1945-1956; 2. Inventing socialist human rights, 1953-1966; 3. Socialist human rights on the world stage, 1966-1978; 4. The ambiguity of human rights from below, 1968-1982; 5. The rise of dissent and the collapse of socialist human rights, 1980-1989; 6. Revolutions won and lost, 1989-1990; Conclusion. Erasures and rediscoveries.
