National Film Archive - Audiovisual Institute Collection

National Film Archive - Audiovisual Institute is a state institution founded in 1955 and led by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Its main aim is to preserve the Polish cinematographic heritage and to disseminate the film culture. The National Film Archive consists of all sorts of materials of Polish and foreign cinema production: audiovisual materials, photographs, posters, screenplays, and reviews (both press reviews and censorship decisions).

Location:
- Warszawa Puławska 61, Poland
Topics:
- censorship
- film
Date of founding:
- 1955
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National Pantheon Foundation

The collection includes the documents of the National Pantheon Foundation. In the 1980s, the Kerepesi Cemetery became an important place of Hungarian national heritage for the National Pantheon Movement. The movement attached messages to the cemetery that differed from the official socialist cultural policy: they emphasized different aspects of the past and in doing so created a potentially critical cultural perspective.

Location:
- Budapest, Teve str. 3-5.
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Date of founding:
- 2012
Featured items:
- Historical tombs in the Kerepesi Cemetery, ca. 1986. Map

Nebojša Popov Collection

The Nebojša Popov Collection is held at the Historical Archives of Belgrade in Serbia. Nebojša Popov, a sociologist and intellectual, became one of the most renowned antiwar activists in Serbia and former Yugoslavia and was known for his involvement in various intellectual, academic, and political activities critical of contemporary authorities. From 1975 to 1981, Popov's work was deemed politically unsuitable so that he was excluded from academic institutions. This collection contains manuscripts, press clippings, court decisions, appeals, minutes of opposition meetings and round table discussions, book excerpts, articles from academic journals, and about three-hundred books from Popov's private library.

Location:
- Beograd Palmira Toljatija 1, Serbia
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Date of founding:
- 1966
Featured items:
- Legal documents on special issue of "The Student" of 25 June 1968

Nelu Stratone Private Musical Records Collection

The Nelu Stratone collection is one of the most impressive collections of rock, jazz, and folk records created in communist Romania, as a result of the happy combination between its owner’s exceptional passion for alternative music and his ability to acquire records that were not imported officially. The collection is important not only for its size, but even more for the significant number of albums of Western provenance, which were unavailable in shops in Romania but could nevertheless be obtained due to the existence of an alternative market for such products. The creation and preservation of such a collection were activities regarded with suspicion by the communist authorities in Romania, because they proved the younger generation’s fascination with Western cultural products, in contravention of the spirit of Nicolae Ceauşescu’s Theses of July 1971.

Location:
- București Strada Sfântul Ștefan 21, Romania 030167
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Date of founding:
- 1972
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Nicolae Dragoș Collection at National Archive Moldova

This ad-hoc collection is related to the activities of the first explicitly anti-communist organisation of the post-Stalinist period that operated in the Moldavian SSR, the Democratic Union of Socialists. The materials within this collection focus on the activity of the founder and main ideologue of the group, Nicolae Dragoș, a schoolteacher who challenged the political and ideological monopoly of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union under the impact of Khrushchev’s “thaw” and aimed at creating an alternative political movement based on a platform of “democratic socialism.” The Dragoș case files, originally held in the Archive of the Intelligence and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova (formerly the KGB Archive), were transferred to the National Archive of the Republic of Moldova in 2012.

Location:
- Chișinău Strada Gheorghe Asachi 67, Moldova
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Featured items:
- Official Protest by the Prosecutor General of the Moldavian SSR, 30 December 1988 (in Russian)
- Official Sentence Concerning the Case of Nicolae Dragoș (in Russian)