The Activities of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union in the Late 1980s in Ukraine

Abstract

The study is devoted to the activities of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union (Ukrajinska helsinska spilka) in terms of politics of reconstruction in Soviet Ukraine since its foundation in the summer of 1988 until the transformation of the association into a political party in April 1990. Special attention is paid on the transformation of the Union into political party and the its role for Ukrainian independence.

Keywords

• Ukrainian Helsinki Union
• perestroika
• dissidents
• human rights
• oppositional movement
• state independence