This collection contains the original issues of ARS – Review of Culture, Art and Science, a literary journal first published from 1986 to 1989 in Montenegro. The circle of intellectuals associated with ARS anticipated many of the social and political issues that escalated into the worst forms of nationalism in the early 1990s, leading to the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Because of their non-conformist attitudes, members of ARS, and its publisher, the Literary Municipality of Cetinje, found themselves under pressure by the communist regime. Consequently, the journal was forced to cease publication in 1989.

Location:
- Cetinje Bulevar Crnogorskih Junaka, Montenegro
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Featured items:
- Radojević Danilo. “The Point of the Disputes Between Historians about Sources on Old Montenegrin History”, in Serbian, 1987. Journal Article

Action of Light Collection

The collection consists of artefacts about the 'Action of Light', established by Paulis Kļaviņš, which operated in the 1970s and 1980s. It aimed to support religious dissidents and human rights campaigners in Latvia, and to inform the public in the West about the real situation in Soviet Latvia.

Location:
- LV-1050 Rīga Raiņa bulvāris 7 , Latvia
Topics:
- human rights movements
- religious activism
Date of founding:
- 1994
Featured items:
- Wraps Used in Protest Actions

Adrian Marino Collection at BCU Cluj-Napoca

The collection illustrates Adrian Marino’s intellectual evolution as a historian and literary critic who chose to pursue his activity outside the institutions controlled by the communist regime. The Marino Collection includes books, original manuscripts, and the author’s correspondence, which reflects a critical perspective on Romanian literary life in the period 1964–1989.

Location:
- Cluj-Napoca Strada Clinicilor 2, Romania 400000
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Date of founding:
- 1964
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Aktionsgruppe Banat Ad-hoc Collection at CNSAS

The Aktionsgruppe Banat Ad-hoc Collection reflects the type of cultural opposition represented by a group of Romanian-German writers, who founded together the literary circle Aktionsgruppe Banat and developed a neo-Marxist criticism of “really existing socialism.” The collection comprises two types of items: (1) manuscripts and other materials confiscated by the Securitate from these writers, (2) documents issued by the Securitate concerning their cultural activity, which the communist regime perceived as dangerous.

Location:
- București Strada Matei Basarab 55, Romania 030167
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Featured items:
- Aktionsgruppe Banat. Engagement, in German, 1974. Manuscript
- Ortinau, Gerhard. The street ballad of the ten parts of speech of the traditional grammar, in German, 1974. Manuscript

Aldona Liobytė collection

‘Aldona Liobytė. Smiling Resistance' was the title of one of the first books about the writer, publicist and interpreter Aldona Liobytė. Being a very active person with a strong sense of humour, Liobytė initiated and led informal networks among the Lithuanian intelligentsia. She kept up social ties and correspondence with many artists, discussing and making suggestions about creative work and everyday life, as well as supporting the ideas of the younger generation of artists. Through her personal ties and networks, she expressed an outlook (usually in the form of humour, irony or sarcasm) that had a sense of the existence beyond official Soviet ideology. While she was forced to leave her job at the Literary Fiction publishers because of her un-Soviet attitudes, she continued to work in the cultural sphere, writing for children and the younger generation. Translating from other languages was also an important activity and a reliable source of income for Liobytė's family .
The collection consists of the papers of Aldona Liobytė, which are split between the Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum and Liobytė’s daughter Gintarė Paškevičiūtė-Breivienė.

Location:
- Kaunas Rotušės aikštė 13, Lithuania 44239
Topics:
- alternative lifestyles and resistance of the everydays
Date of founding:
- 1985
Featured items:
- Liobytė's statement to Antanas Sniečkus, the first secretary of Lithuanian Communist party