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2 Universal Hum. Rts. 47 (1980)
Contacts with the West: The Dissidents' View of Western Support for the Human Rights Movement in the Soviet Union

handle is hein.journals/hurq2 and id is 49 raw text is: SYMPOSIUM Dissent in the Soviet Union Contacts with the West: The Dissidents' View of Western Support for the Human Rights Movement in the Soviet Union RICHARD N. DEAN Richard N. Dean is completing a joint J.D.-M.A. program in government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He will join the New rork law firm Coudert Brothers as an associate in the fall of 1980. The recent wave of Soviet repression of dissidence in response to President Carter's open rebuke of Soviet violations of human rights has raised the ques- tion of what, if anything, the West can do to support the development of the human rights, or dissident, movement in the Soviet Union. The Nixon- Kissinger policy of quiet diplomacy, based on the assumption that open con- frontations over human rights were counterproductive, provided little overt sup- port for persecuted dissidents. American frustration with this policy peaked when President Ford refused to receive Alexander Solzhenitsyn at the White House to avoid provoking the Soviet leadership. Carter's policy of speaking out against Soviet violations of human rights, while providing greater support for the dissidents, seems to have provoked even greater persecution. This basic confusion over what the United States and other Western nations can do to support the dissidents has prompted this essay. It is my asser- tion that the dissidents, through their contacts with the West, have grown in- creasingly sophisticated in their approach to this problem and consequently have much to offer toward its resolution. For this reason, I focus on the develop- ment of dissident contacts with the West and the means of support that the dissidents suggest are most effective. Such means include the dissemination of information, the use of formal contacts such as detente and the Helsinki agree- ment, the use of coercive measures, and the work of private international organizations. Finally, I attempt to suggest several implications that these UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS, Vol. 2, No. , Jan-Mar 1980 ©Earl M. Coleman Ent. Inc. UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS January-March

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