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Human Rights in the Ex-Soviet Successor States: A Case of the Bends

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

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The Bends, otherwise known as Caisson Disease, is according to my dictionary, “a condition marked by paralysis, pain, etc., developed in coming from an atmosphere of high pressure, as in a caisson, to air of ordinary pressure, and caused by the formation in the blood of bubbles…” The malady of Bends, provides a metaphor, if not too closely scrutinized, for the condition of the successor states of the former USSR.

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Part I: Morning Session
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities of the USSR and Eastern Europe, Inc. 

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References

1 Guseinov, G.Ch., “Menshinstva v post-imperskom mire,” Korni (Riga) No. 2, December 1991.Google Scholar

2 Paradise Lost,” The NY Review of Books, 9 April 1992, p. 6.Google Scholar

3 The former writing in Foreign Affairs Spring 1992—the latter speaking in New York 30 April 1992.Google Scholar

4 Foreign Affairs, Spring, 1992.Google Scholar

5 Yurgis Tubinis, in Rossiiskaia gazeta, 13 March 1992, condensed in CDSP XLIV: 11, 1992, p. 17.Google Scholar

6 I document these views in a forthcoming essay, entitled “Making Up for Lost Choice—The Quest for Identity in Post-Sovietia.”Google Scholar

7 These are summed up nicely in an Interlegal Research Center human rights report for March 1992.Google Scholar

9 Human Rights Watch World Report 1992, 510; Faina Kukelinskita, “Two Terrible Truths Abide in Lithuanian War Crimes,” The Baltimore Sun, February 23, 1992.Google Scholar