Ort

• Zagreb Trg Josipa Jurja Strossmayera 14, Croatia 10000
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Sprachen

• Englisch
• Französisch
• Kroatisch

Name der Sammlung

• Pugwash Movement Collection

Sammlungsgeschichte und kulturelle Aktivitäten

• The Pugwash Movement Collection was created by collecting books, journal and other publications (brochures and leaflets) at the Institute for the Philosophy of Science and Peace (today the Philosophy of Science Division of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science) of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts). The establishment of this Institute in 1965 is directly tied to the so-called Pugwash Movement or the Pugwash Conference. The word “peace” in the name of the Institute referred to the Pugwash Movement. The founder of the Institute and the key person who initiated the membership of Croatian and Yugoslav intellectuals in the Pugwash Movement was Ivan Supek.

  Pugwash is a small village Nova Scotia (Canada), where the first conference was held in 1957, so the movement was named after it. A Pugwash native, steel magnate Cyrus Stephen Eaton, hosted the first conference, which was based on a manifesto drawn up by Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in 1955 that highlighted the peril posed by nuclear weapons and called for disarmament and for world leaders to seek peaceful resolutions to international conflicts. Supek supported these goals throughout his life.

  Since the foundation of the Institute, until the middle of the 1990s, the Institute has received a relatively large number of different publications, leaflets, brochures, books, and above all the proceedings of the Pugwash Conferences that were held every year in different city in the world. Moreover, since 1966, the Institute has published the journal Encyclopaedia moderna, with something about the Pugwash Movement in each issue.

  When Supek became the president of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) in 1991, he was no longer as closely connected to the Institute. The Institute was merged into the Institute of the History of Science and “lost” the word “peace” from its name, and the connection to the Pugwash movement vanished with time. However, the Pugwash Conference and its sections continued to send their publications (books, magazines, brochures and leaflets) to the same address until the beginning of the 21^st century (2002/2003). Dr Bojan Marotti, as a staff member of the Institute since the mid-1980s, kept them in the Institute, and after a few years, he organised the materials to make them searchable and usable. The collection was open to visitors at the Institute of the History and Philosophy of Science. As a part of its Open Doors Day, each year from 2011 to 2014 the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts organised tours for observation and use of the Pugwash Movement Collection. The collection, however, was not used by many people. So, in 2014 Bojan Marotti, in agreement with Vedrana Juričić (the head of the Library of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts), turned the collection over to the Library.

  The collection was incorporated into the Library and no longer exists as a separate collection, but all of the publications are available to the public and searchable through a digital catalogue. The journals are included in the Library’s collection of periodicals, and the books in the Library’s collection of books. A smaller portion of the material (brochures and leaflets) was handed over to the HAZU Archives. The Archives are currently in talks with Prof. Vladimir Knapp, a retired professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (University of Zagreb), a long-time active member of the Pugwash Movement, who owns a private collection on the Pugwash Movement (interview with Marotti, Bojan; interview with Juričić, Vedrana).

  The Yugoslav Communist government was not pleased with the existence of the Pugwash Movement. The Yugoslav members of the movement usually considered themselves a sort of "underground" movement. Dr Bojan Marotti, one of the members of the Pugwash Movement, said in an interview for COURAGE: "While I was working in the Croatian/Yugoslav section of the Pugwash Conference. I was always under the impression that I was doing something illegal. There was a sense of conspiracy. For example, if we were to vote for a document, we did not know whether we could publicise it or not. Is it a secret or not? My impression has always been that we were doing something conspiratorial. Ivan Supek did not act like this because he wanted it to be all legitimate" (interview with Marotti, Bojan). The Yugoslav government did not like the Pugwash Movement because their members expressed views that were too idealistic, mostly due to demands for the immediate disarmament of the world's states. Moreover, after the Second World War the Yugoslav regime considered the possibility of developing nuclear weapons (Knapp 2015), so Supek's demands on disarmament and the end of the nuclear arms race could be seen as opposed to the development of Yugoslav military power, which was a highly militarised state.

  This collection is a valuable resource for the study of the history of the global anti-nuclear and peace movement in the world, especially the relationship between Yugoslavia and the Pugwash Movement, but so far it has been very little used.

Inhaltsbeschreibung

• By the end of the 20^th century, the Institute for the Philosophy of Science and Peace (now the Philosophy of Science Division of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science) of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) had received a relatively large quantity of different publications, leaflets, brochures, journals and books (including the proceedings of the Pugwash Conferences). Moreover, since 1966, the Institute has published the Encyclopaedia Moderna, a journal in which each issue included a column dedicated to the Pugwash Movement.

  At the beginning of the 21^st century, Bojan Marotti organised the collection on shelves in the HAZU Philosophy of Science Division of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science. It included over 400 publications, primarily books and magazines, but also some leaflets, brochures and similar smaller publications. In order to make this material more accessible, Marotti handed over the Collection to the HAZU Library in five medium-size (parcel) boxes. It consists of approximately 80 books, 30 titles of serial publications in multiple volumes, and dozens of leaflets. The Library assigned the leaflets and similar minor publications to the HAZU Archives, while books and serial publications were incorporated into the Library’s collections (collection of books and collection of journals).

  All of the publications pertain to the history of the global peace and anti-nuclear movement. They cover the period from the mid-1960s to the late 20^th century, mostly in English, and less in Croatian and French. The collection includes Joseph Rotblat’s book A History of the Conferences on Science and World Affairs (Prague: Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1967), and the journals Encyclopaedia Moderna, Disarmament and Arms Control: an International Quarterly Journal, Amnesty International Report, Peace Review: the International Quarterly of World Peace.

Inhalt

• Publikationen: 100-499

Betreiber

• Library of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Besitzer

• Library of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Philosophy of Science Division of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Interessensvertreter/Teilhaber der Sammlung

• Juričić, Vedrana

Geographische Reichweite der Sammlung

• international

Themen

• Friedensbewegungen
• Umweltschutz (bspw. anti-Atomkraft Bewegung)

Schöpfer/in

• Philosophy of Science Division of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Gründungsdatum

• 1965

Gründungsort

• Zagreb, Croatia
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Autor

• Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

Sammler

• Marotti, Bojan
• Philosophy of Science Division of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Supek, Ivan

Unterstützer

• Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Wichtige Ereignisse in der Geschichte der Sammlung

• Donation of the Pugwash Movement Collection to the Library of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (2014)

Besondere Beispiele

• Rotblat, Joseph, ed. Proceeding of the First Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs: Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, 7-10 July 1957, 1982. Book
• Supek, Ivan, ed. Encyclopaedia moderna, 1966. Journal

Zugangsart

• öffentlich zugänglich

AutorIn des Eintrags

• Mihaljević, Josip

Literaturverzeichnis

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Juričić, Vedrana, interview by Mihaljević, Josip, July 06, 2018. COURAGE Registry Oral History Collection

Marotti, Bojan, interview by Mihaljević, Josip, July 02, 2018. COURAGE Registry Oral History Collection