Éva Cseke-Gyimesi Collection at BCU Cluj-Napoca

The Éva Cseke-Gyimesi Collection is arguably the most comprehensive example of Transylvanian Hungarian cultural opposition in Romania. It consists of books, manuscripts, typed texts, private correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other items reflecting Éva Cseke-Gyimesi's cultural opposition to Ceaușescu's regime. The collection allows one to understand Éva Cseke-Gyimesi's criticism exercised through her professional works, her democratic resistance marked by a truly pro-European perspective, and her struggle for human rights illustrated by letters of protest, memorandums, pamphlets, and samizdats which she authored, endorsed, or distributed.

Location:
- Cluj-Napoca Strada Horea 31, Romania 400000
Topics:
Date of founding:
- 1963
Featured items:
- Cs. Gyimesi, Éva. Pearls and Sand: Ideological Value-Symbols in Hungarian Literature, 1992, in Hungarian. Book
- Unknown author. Questionnaire, in Hungarian, 1987–1989. Manuscript

Łódź Kaliska Archive

Łódź Kaliska is an art group which has been continuously active since 1979. It is notorious for being involved in numerous scandals and provocations. The majority of its members did not have any artistic education, which was a defiance against the professionalised world of contemporary art of late socialism. In the 1980s the members of the group participated in the underground net of radical artists Pitch-In Culture and, for a long time, avoided the official art circles. The Łódź Kaliska Archive contains documentation of the group’s activities, most important works, information on exhibitions, artists’ bios, and critiques.

Location:
- Poland
- Łódź , Polska
Topics:
- underground culture
- visual arts
Featured items:
- "Freiheit? Nein, danke!", 1988. Film

Ştefan Gane Collection at IICCMER

The Ștefan Gane Collection documents in photographs and slides the extent of the demolitions imposed by the so-called systematisation programme in Bucharest following the devastating earthquake of 4 March 1977, which the communist regime used as a pretext for destroying or mutilating numerous historic monuments. The Ștefan Gane Collection is also an important source for understanding and writing the history of that particular segment of the Romanian exile community which was extremely active in disseminating in Western countries information about the aberrant policies of the Ceaușescu regime. In particular, this personal archive illustrates the efforts of the collector and of other personalities from the exile community to stop the systematisation of Bucharest.

Location:
- București Strada Alecu Russo 13, Romania 030167
Topics:
- democratic opposition
- emigration/exile
Date of founding:
- 1977
Featured items:
- Gane, Ștefan. Mihai Vodă Church, 1984. Photo
- Gane, Ștefan. Protest against the demolition of historic monuments in Romania, Paris, 1985. Photo

Žarana Papić Collection

The Žarana Papić collection contains over 2,000 books and other valuable documents dedicated to the history of feminist movement in Serbia and Yugoslavia. A pioneer of the feminist movement, Žarana Papić taught sociology at the University of Belgrade, where she earned her doctorate in anthropology. In 2003, her legacy was donated to the Center for Women’s Studies in Belgrade.

Location:
- Beograd Jove Ilića 165, Serbia
Topics:
Date of founding:
- 2003
Featured items:
- Folder about International Symposium “Drug–ca“ (Comrade Woman), 1978

Živko Kustić Collection

The Živko Kustić Collection represents a source for the study of Catholic journalism and Catholicism in Croatia generally as one of the forms of the culture of dissent in the socialist period. It is a private collection owned by Kustić's granddaughter Lucija Mihaljević.

Location:
- Zagreb Vlaška ulica 12, Croatia 10000
Topics:
- religious activism
Date of founding:
- 1940
Featured items:
- Kustić, Živko. Rev. Jure’s Letters (Don Jurina pisma), 2009. Book.
- Kustić, Živko. Zaljubljeni robovi ( Slaves in Love), 1973. Book.