The "Political Red Cross" and the Genealogy of Rights Discourse in Revolutionary Russia. Finkel, S. Journal of modern history, 89(1):79–118, 2017. abstract bibtex Rights activism in revolutionary Russia can thus be situated both within a nascent international individual rights and civil liberties advocacy and as a robust instance of emergent early 20th-century national/local rights organizations. The Russian Political Red Cross (or Krest) attracted hundreds of prominent members as a legal mass voluntary organization from 1918 to 1922, operating within a well-developed tradition of "social activism" by the intelligentsia. Additionally, the lawyers and moderate socialists who made up the Krest's active core acquired a more specific ethos of "defending the rights of the individual" expressly against the encroachments of a menacing state. In tracing the genealogy of this ethos from several overlapping, interrelated discourses–the legal discourse of individual rights; the sentimental discourse of outraged empathy; and the "Red Cross" discourse of humanitarian assistance–Finkel elucidates how these discourses were evinced in the principles and activities of the Krest's "rights defenders" and how connections were forged within an embryonic transnational humanitarian community. Reprinted by permission of the University of Chicago Press. © All rights reserved
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