Polish Underground Publications Collection at Polish Library POSK in London

Located at the Polish Library of the Polish Social and Cultural Association (POSK) in London, Polish Underground Publications collection contains serials, books, and brochures published clandestinely by Polish opposition groups from 1976 to 1990. This is one of the largest collections of Polish independent publications worldwide and outside Poland. It documents the pluralistic character of anti-communist opposition in People's Poland and testifies to the richness, diversity, and magnitude of underground publishing in People's Poland.

Ort:
- London King Street 238-246, United Kingdom
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1980
Besondere Beispiele:
- Underground issues of "brulion" literary and cultural periodical

Samizdat Collection at Petőfi Literary Museum (PLM)

This collection is one of the most important samizdat collections in Hungary. The Museum's Library and Archive started systematically to collect samizdat materials in the 1980s. The materials were kept in closed stacks not available to the public until 1989. The Museum held one of the first exhibitions on samizdat in Hungary after the change of regimes.

Ort:
- Budapest Károlyi utca 16, Hungary 1053
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1981
Besondere Beispiele:

Scriptum.cz

The Scriptum.cz web archive provides access to various non-commercial and online Czech exile and samizdat periodicals. This is a unique collection of works that are often not accessible anywhere and are constantly being refilled.

Ort:
- Czech Republic
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 2007
Besondere Beispiele:
- Listy - exile magazine

The Archive of the Opposition in KARTA Centre

The Archive of Opposition is one of the oldest activities of the KARTA Centre. It was established in 1991 as “The Archive of the Polish People’s Republic” and gathered all the materials concerning political life in Poland since 1956 to 1989, especially in connection to the events of 1956, 1968, 1970, 1980. In 1998 the archive changed its name to “The Archive of Opposition”, which reflects greater awareness of the specificity of the opposition in the Polish People’s Republic: its diversity extending beyond merely political actions. In the Archive researchers and journalists can find a very rich, written and visual material on the newest Polish political and social history.

Ort:
- Warszawa, Ul. Narbutta 29
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1991
Besondere Beispiele:
- Zdzisław Najder Personal Collection, items, 1960s - 1990s

Zoltán Rostás Oral History Private Collection

The Zoltán Rostás private collection stands out as something unique in the context of the Romania of the 1980s and an extraordinary example of a passion that developed in the grey zone of tolerance permitted by the regime into a profession after the fall of the regime. The oral history interviews recorded by the owner of the collection, which capture not only societal changes but also the cultural diversity that still existed in the Bucharest of those years, contradict the official homogenising vision of the party-state and constitute documents of social history without parallel in the period in question. This collection also preserved the memory of the school of sociology that was destroyed by the communist regime and, after 1989, it made a decisive contribution towards the institutionalisation of oral history in the academic world of Romania.

Ort:
- București Strada Valea Argeșului 20, Romania 061936
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1980
Besondere Beispiele:
- Lena Constante and Harry Brauner, interview by Zoltán Rostás, in Romanian, 1985. Tape recording
- UHER Tape recorder