Human Rights 101: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
In this lesson, students will learn how human rights differ from civil rights and gain introductory knowledge of how the international community united to define and defend human rights.
Alexander Bogomolov, 1948.
Source: United Nations.
Alexander Efremovich Bogomolov was a soldier, scholar, and diplomat. Bogomolov served in the Red Army from 1919 through 1930. During the 1930s he served as an associate professor and the head of the department of dialectical and historical materialism at Moscow State University. In 1940 Bogomolov began his career as a diplomat when he was sent to France. From 1941 to 1943 he served as the Soviet ambassador to the Allied governments in exile. From 1944 to 1950 Bogomolov served as the Soviet ambassador to France and as the head of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations. During the 1950s he served as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the USSR and as an ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Italy.
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