The Andrei Partoş–Radio Vacanţa-Costineşti Private Collection includes photographs, publications, and various documents regarding a seasonal radio station that operated during the summer holiday period in Costineşti, which was officially and popularly considered to be the seaside resort for young people. This radio station and its associated activity in Costineşti was a social phenomenon without any term of comparison in the Romania of the 1980s, an epitome of the alternative culture of the younger generation under later Romanian communism and a formative experience for the generation who supports the democratic consolidation in present-day Romania.
András Kisfaludy’s collection suggests ways of interpreting retrospective gazes on the alternative culture of the socialist period. While Kisfaludy is the owner of a sizable private collection that concerns alternative and dissent culture of the era, he is more a creator than a collector of documents. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, he was a member of the famous youth gang called "Kalef" (in 2006, he made a film about the gang). From 1968 to 1971, he was the percussionist of the underground band "Kex.” Kisfaludy began to make documentary films on cultural opposition in the 1990s. The core of his oeuvre was done between the early 1990s and early 2000s.
The status of the collection is special because the rights of the movies belong exclusively to András Kisfaludy, so the collection exists only as a private collection. However, the majority of his films are accessible via Youtube.
In dem Berliner "Archiv Lied und Soziale Bewegungen" werden Zeugnisse aus der Singe- und Liedermacherbewegung der DDR seit den 1960er Jahren gesammelt. Die von einem gemeinnützigen Verein verwalteten Materialien zeigen auf, wie schwierig es mitunter wird, kulturelle Opposition allein zwischen den Polaritäten staatstragend und systemfeindlich zu untersuchen.
The Student Cultural Center (Studentski Kulturni Centar - SKC), a gathering place for Belgrade students and young Yugoslav artists, was founded and began operations in 1971. During the 1970s, it became a hub of avant-garde movements, ideas and individuals. It played an important role in youth culture of Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 1980s. The SKC archive has rich collections of written and visual materials from socialist Yugoslavia and is an essential place for the study of cultural and artistic scenes in the era of socialism.
The Audiovisual Section of the Libri Prohibiti library contains recordings of non-conformist music and spoken word, underground lectures and seminars. It also contains video-documents and amateur film productions. The unavailability of the original recordings and total content consisting of thousands of exemplars makes the collection unique in the Czech context.