Cover -- Contents -- 1. The Return of the Prodigal: The 1970s as a Turning Point in Human Rights History -- 2. The Dystopia of Postcolonial Catastrophe: Self-Determination, the Biafran War of Secession, and the 1970s Human Rights Moment -- 3. The Disenchantment of Socialism: Soviet Dissidents, Human Rights, and the New Global Morality -- 4. Dictatorship and Dissent: Human Rights in East Germany in the 1970s -- 5. Whose Utopia? Gender, Ideology, and Human Rights at the 1975 World Congress of Women in East Berlin -- 6. "Magic Words": The Advent of Transnational Human Rights Activism in Latin America's Southern Cone in the Long 1970s -- 7. Shifting Sites of Argentine Advocacy and the Shape of 1970s Human Rights Debates -- 8. Oasis in the Desert? America's Human Rights Rediscovery -- 9. Human Rights and the U.S. Republican Party in the Late 1970s -- 10. The Polish Opposition, the Crisis of the Gierek Era, and the Helsinki Process -- 11. "Human Rights Are Like Coca-Cola": Contested Human Rights Discourses in Suharto's Indonesia, 1968-1980 -- 12. Why South Africa? The Politics of Anti-Apartheid Activism in Britain in the Long 1970s -- 13. The Rebirth of Politics from the Spirit of Morality: Explaining the Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.