{"id":450,"date":"2016-05-05T15:49:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T14:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/?p=450"},"modified":"2019-03-08T10:17:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T10:17:06","slug":"british-human-rights-organizations-soviet-dissent-1965-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2016\/05\/05\/british-human-rights-organizations-soviet-dissent-1965-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"British Human Rights Organizations &amp; Soviet Dissent, 1965-1985"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\">Congratulations to our Research Support Officer and Honorary Research Fellow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/history\/staff\/profiles\/hurst.html\">Dr Mark Hurst<\/a>, whose book &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/british-human-rights-organizations-and-soviet-dissent-1965-1985-9781472522344\/\">British Human Rights Organizations &amp; Soviet Dissent, 1965-1985<\/a>&#8216; was released by Bloomsbury today!<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/files\/2016\/05\/9781472522344-002.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-451\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-451\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/files\/2016\/05\/9781472522344-002-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"9781472522344 (002)\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/files\/2016\/05\/9781472522344-002-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/files\/2016\/05\/9781472522344-002.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\">\n<p>The book explores the British response to Soviet human rights violation, drawing on Dr Hurst\u2019s extensive archival work and interviews with key individuals from the period.<\/p>\n<p>In the latter half of the 20th century, a number of dissidents engaged in a series of campaigns against the Soviet authorities and as a result were subjected to an array of cruel and violent punishments.<\/p>\n<p>A collection of like-minded activists in Britain campaigned on their behalf, and formed a variety of organizations to publicise their plight. British Human Rights Organizations and Soviet Dissent, 1965-1985 examines the efforts of these activists, exploring how influential their activism was in shaping the wider public awareness of Soviet human rights violations in the context of the Cold War.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\">Find out more <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1T3mYVb\">here.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our Research Support Officer and Honorary Research Fellow\u00a0Dr Mark Hurst, whose book &#8216;British Human Rights Organizations &amp; Soviet Dissent, 1965-1985&#8216; was released by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2016\/05\/05\/british-human-rights-organizations-soviet-dissent-1965-1985\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39518,"featured_media":451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}