Usatiuc-Ghimpu-Graur Collection (National Patriotic Front) at National Archive of Moldova

This collection comprises documents (including trial records) relating to the group known as the “National Patriotic Front,” which are currently held in the National Archive of the Republic of Moldova (ANRM). These materials were transferred to the ANRM from the Archive of the Intelligence and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova (formerly the KGB Archive). This group operated in the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR) in the late 1960s and the early 1970s as the only significant organisation in the MSSR with a clear-cut and coherent oppositional message.

Ort:
- Chișinău Strada Gheorghe Asachi 67, Moldova
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1972
Besondere Beispiele:
- Letter from the National Patriotic Front to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1971 (in Russian)
- Report of the MSSR KGB on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1972 (in Russian)

Veteran Circle of Hungarian Legionists in Provence

This unique collection of historical resources presently at the Blinken-OSA Archives was explored and produced by Béla Nóvé, a Hungarian historian and documentary filmmaker based in Budapest. He conducted extensive oral history and archival research in France and Hungary during the period 2011–2017. The collection contains both private and legionary, digital- and paper-based materials of the more than 4,000 Hungarian volunteers who joined the French Foreign Legion (FFL) following 1945 and 1956. Particular focus is placed on those circa 500 Hungarian minors, who took an active part in the 1956 Hungarian revolution and freedom fight, then fled to the West as refugees and joined the FFL, just to find themselves soon in the devastating battles of the Algerian war. Among them, a few dozen veterans still keep in contact and regularly meet in Provence, in the south of France.

Ort:
- Budapest Arany János utca 32, Hungary 1051
Themen:
- Emigration/ Exil
- nationale Bewegungen (patriotische Opposition)
Gründungsdatum:
- 2011
Besondere Beispiele:

Vinko Nikolić Collection

The collection contains the personal papers of the émigré writer Vinko Nikolić and the archives of the literary quarterly Croatian Review, which the communist authorities banned in Croatia in 1945. Nikolić re-established the review in Argentina in 1951 and was its editor-in-chief until 1990. Additionally, the collection contains the archives of the Library of the Croatian Review, a publishing house founded by Nikolić in 1957. This rich collection is essential for researching the transnational network of post-war Croatian political émigrés, whose literary works were strictly prohibited and labelled as "hostile propaganda" in socialist Yugoslavia.

Ort:
- Zagreb Ulica Hrvatske Bratske Zajednice 4, Croatia 10000
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1945
Besondere Beispiele:

Vjesnik Newspaper Documentation

Vjesnik Newspaper Documentation is an archival collection created in the Vjesnik newspaper publishing enterprise from 1964 to 2006. It includes about twelve million press clippings, organized into six thousand topics and sixty thousand dossiers on public persons. Inter alia, it documents various forms of cultural opposition in the former Yugoslavia, but also in other communist countries in Europe and worldwide.

Zaharia Doncev Collection at SIS Archive Moldova

This ad-hoc collection mainly consists of documents separated from the fond of judicial files concerning persons subject to political repression during the communist regime, currently held in the Archive of the Intelligence and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova (formerly the KGB Archive). It focuses on the case of Zaharia Doncev, a Moldavian worker who expressed his opposition to the Soviet regime in May 1955 by writing and distributing four “anti-Soviet” leaflets at the Chișinău railway station and in the surrounding area. Doncev’s case represents the first recorded instance of a nationally oriented oppositional message in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR) in the post-Stalinist period. This case should be linked to the early context of Khrushchev’s Thaw and to the impact of the partial liberalisation of the regime on certain Soviet citizens.

Ort:
- Chișinău Bulevardul Ștefan cel Mare și Sfînt 166, Moldova 2004
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1957
Besondere Beispiele:
- Doncev, Zaharia. "Anti-Soviet" Leaflets, 1955. Manuscripts (in Romanian and Russian)
- Official Accusatory Act Concerning the Case of Zaharia Doncev (in Russian)