The rise of dissent in Poland -- Dissent and the politics of human rights -- "The principle of non-interference as laid down in the Helsinki Final Act" : the Polish crisis, the Cold War and human rights -- The end of the ideological age : human rights and Ostpolitik -- Solidarity, human rights, and anti-totalitarianism in France -- The "bedrock of human rights" : US labor, neconservatism, and human rights -- Letters from prison : the prisoner of conscience and the symbolic politics of human rights -- Lech Wałęsa, the symbolism of the Nobel Peace Prize, and global human rights culture -- General Pinochecki : Poland, Chile, and the global politics of human rights culture -- Human rights and the end of the Cold War -- Epilogue