Mary McAuley is an Associate of the International Centre for Prison Studies and a member of the International Advisory Committee for the website Rights in Russia. Between 1995 and 2002 she headed the Ford Foundation's Moscow Office, with particular responsibility for the human rights and legal reform programme. Previously she pursued an academic career, including posts at York, Essex, Wisconsin Madison, Berkeley and St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is the author of Children in Custody: Anglo-Russian Perspectives; Russia's Politics of Uncertainty and Soviet Politics 1917-1991.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: THE GOLDEN DECADE1 Perestroika to 1993: Seedbed for Human Rights2 Human Rights Organizations: First Shoots3 Early Debates over Rights and Strategies4 Local Differences, Tackling Isolationism5 Western Assistance, An Extraordinary CongressPART II: TAKING STOCK6 The Civic Forum of 2001: to Tango or to Sit it Out7 Activists and Popular AttitudesPART III: ACTIVISTS in ACTION8 Army and Police Reform9 Prison Inspectors and Juvenile Courts10 Domestic Violence, Refugees, the Memorial SocietyPART IV: TWENTY YEARS ON11 Young Lawyers Step Forward12 Human Rights, Society, and Politics in 2013Conclusion

Mary McAuley is an Associate of the International Centre for Prison Studies and a member of the International Advisory Committee for the website Rights in Russia. Between 1995 and 2002 she headed the Ford Foundation's Moscow Office, with particular responsibility for the human rights and legal reform programme. Previously she pursued an academic career, including posts at York, Essex, Wisconsin Madison, Berkeley and St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is the author of Children in Custody: Anglo-Russian Perspectives; Russia's Politics of Uncertainty and Soviet Politics 1917-1991.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: THE GOLDEN DECADE1 Perestroika to 1993: Seedbed for Human Rights2 Human Rights Organizations: First Shoots3 Early Debates over Rights and Strategies4 Local Differences, Tackling Isolationism5 Western Assistance, An Extraordinary CongressPART II: TAKING STOCK6 The Civic Forum of 2001: to Tango or to Sit it Out7 Activists and Popular AttitudesPART III: ACTIVISTS in ACTION8 Army and Police Reform9 Prison Inspectors and Juvenile Courts10 Domestic Violence, Refugees, the Memorial SocietyPART IV: TWENTY YEARS ON11 Young Lawyers Step Forward12 Human Rights, Society, and Politics in 2013Conclusion

Mary McAuley is an Associate of the International Centre for Prison Studies and a member of the International Advisory Committee for the website Rights in Russia. Between 1995 and 2002 she headed the Ford Foundation's Moscow Office, with particular responsibility for the human rights and legal reform programme. Previously she pursued an academic career, including posts at York, Essex, Wisconsin Madison, Berkeley and St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is the author of Children in Custody: Anglo-Russian Perspectives; Russia's Politics of Uncertainty and Soviet Politics 1917-1991.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: THE GOLDEN DECADE1 Perestroika to 1993: Seedbed for Human Rights2 Human Rights Organizations: First Shoots3 Early Debates over Rights and Strategies4 Local Differences, Tackling Isolationism5 Western Assistance, An Extraordinary CongressPART II: TAKING STOCK6 The Civic Forum of 2001: to Tango or to Sit it Out7 Activists and Popular AttitudesPART III: ACTIVISTS in ACTION8 Army and Police Reform9 Prison Inspectors and Juvenile Courts10 Domestic Violence, Refugees, the Memorial SocietyPART IV: TWENTY YEARS ON11 Young Lawyers Step Forward12 Human Rights, Society, and Politics in 2013Conclusion