| Titre | Les droits de l'homme, la paix et les dissidents d'Europe de l'Est | |
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| Auteur | Vladimir Tismaneanu | |
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Revue | L'Homme et la société |
| Numéro | no 87, 1er trimestre 1988 La démocratie en défaut | |
| Page | 9-25 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Vladimir Tismaneanu, Human Rights, Peace and East European Dissent
A mutual suspicion seems to govern the dialogue between Western peaceniks and East European dissidents. Western pacifists tend to single out the United States as the chief responsible for the maddening arms race and the threat to global stability, thus suspecting East European dissidents of malevolent attitudes not only towards the Communist authoritarian bureaucracies, but also against the very idea of socialism. They tend to regard the URSS as a country like any other, to be blind to the dangers created by Soviet expansionism and to ignore the everyday repressive context of totalitarian regimes. At the other pole, East European dissidents groups are beleaguered minorities, harassed by the secret police, isolated from the larger community. They think that the struggle for peace has been biased by the official peace movements and it cannot be separated from the major issue of freedom and human rights. Recently, a kind of calibration between both movements has become more likely than in the past, as shown by the memorandum signed in common in Vienna in November 1986, and addressed to "citizens, social groups, and governments" of each side of European divide. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/homso_0018-4306_1988_num_87_1_3204 |
