The Ellenpontok Ad-hoc Collection stored in the CNSAS Archives comprises, besides the records of the Securitate, the written evidences of the system-criticising activity of the samizdat editors and their struggle against the violation of human rights and ethnic discrimination. In addition to the life courses of Transylvanian Hungarian intellectuals monitored during the 1970s and 1980s, the collection offers insight into the working methods applied by the secret police in compliance with the policies of the Party, which envisaged the surveillance of individuals in opposition even after their emigration.

Location:
- București Strada Matei Basarab 55, Romania 030167
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Featured items:
- Petition from 14 July 1984 Addressed to the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party
- Samizdat issue of Ellenpontok (Counterpoints) No. 7, in Hungarian, September 1982

Ellenpontok–Tóth Private Collection

The Tóth Private Collection in Göteborg comprises the most comprehensive materials related to Ellenpontok (Counterpoints), the Hungarian-language samizdat publication which gained international reputation in the early 1980s due to its resolute fight for human and minority rights in communist Romania. At the same time, the items resulting from the different stages of the Tóth family’s emigrant life (Hungary, Canada, Sweden), such as official documents, manuscripts, sound recordings, photos, private correspondence, and books on minorities, shed light on the cultural efforts undertaken by the collectors in order to improve the situation of those left behind.

Location:
- Gothenburg Julaftonsgatan 52, Sweden 415 14
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Date of founding:
- 1984
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Elza Rudenāja and Vladislavs Urtāns collection on preservation of local cultural legacy

The Elza Rudenāja and Vladislavs Urtāns collection at the Madona Museum of Local History and Arts shows how much devoted and resourceful people could contribute to the preservation of the local and national culture by working within the system, even in an inhospitable political environment.

Location:
- Madona Skolas iela 12, Latvia LV-4801
Topics:
- alternative lifestyles and resistance of the everydays
- national movements (patriotic opposition)
Date of founding:
- 1944
Featured items:
- Photography of Vladislavs Urtāns with pupils of Madon district schools

Environmental protests in Omiš in 1979, ad hoc collection

The ad hoc collection contains archival documents and newspaper articles from the period 1979-1984, which testify to local organising and protests by several thousand citizens of Omiš against the construction of a sintered magnesia factory in that area, to prevent pollution and maintain the local tourism potential. The collection combines documents from two archival collections which are held in the Croatian State Archives in Zagreb: the records of the Parliament of the Socialist Republic of Croatia and press clippings from the newspaper publishing house Vjesnik.

Location:
- Zagreb Trg Marka Marulića 21, Croatia 10000
Topics:
- environmental protection (e.g. antinuclear movement)
Date of founding:
- 1979
Featured items:
- Kusin, Vesna. Too few good reasons for sintered magnesia [Premalo argumenata za sintermagnezit], Vjesnik, 23. June 1979. Press clipping
- Petition letter against construction of sintered magnesia factory in Omiš sent to Parliament of Socialist Republic of Croatia. 12 April 1979. Archival document

Erazm Ciołek Papers at the Hoover Institution

Erazm Ciołek was a Polish photojournalist, mostly known for his photographs of the Polish Solidarity movement. The bulk of the collection consists of Ciołek's photographs taken between the birth of Solidarity in 1980 and the collapse of state socialism in Poland in 1989. These works document the legendary strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk in 1980, the martial law period in Poland, opposition protests and demonstrations, the Round Table Talks between the opposition and the party regime, and Solidarity's victory in the partly free elections of 4 June 1989. The remaining photos depict the beginnings of democratic rule in Poland and post-Ceaușescu Romania, which the photographer visited in 1990-91. The collection also includes portfolios of photographic reproductions, flyers and catalogues of Ciołek's exhibitions.

Location:
- Stanford Galvez Mall 434, United States of America 94305
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Date of founding:
- 1980
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